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Wednesday, February 06, 2008
 

Mount Foley and Welch Peak from the air, Cheam Range, British Columbia. Photograph by Drew Brayshaw


Photographer/pilot John Scurlock, Chilliwack Airport, British Columbia

Brother dru recently got invited to go flying with Concrete WA's John Scurlock, who, with the help of his little yellow kit plane (above) is busily assembling a massive photographic archive of the mountain terrain of western Canada and Washington's Cascade Range. Last night, dru treated me to an impromptu slideshow of his trip -- 200+ images of the high points of the Cheam Range, Chilliwack Valley, and Manning Park. The highlights from that flight are worth perusing at length, and enlarging.

I've spent months browsing Scurlock's online galleries. Though his images are presented as transparent "information," and not neccessarily in an art context, they exceed that initial purpose, just like August Sander's archives, or Atget's. This picture, for example, of Mount Waddington's main summit in late December, ice-rimed and draped in shrouds of drifting snow, not only accurately represents what the summit looks like, but also conveys Scurlock's amazement at that hostile alien world.
- posted by cjb @ 9:00 PM


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