A Closeup Of John Sutherland, With His Camera.
…As fully discussed in a previous photo, John has had a lifelong avocation in Photography. And, as we see above, this continues to the present day.

…John’s photography practice is also mentioned in Mr. Pirsig’s ZMM Book. Below are two passages, the first is in the Prairie, just before Hague, ND. The second is in The High Mountains of Montana. =>

…“Where there is a slight rise in the road the drone of the motor becomes heavier. We top the rise, see a new spread of land before us, the road descends and the drone of the engine falls away again. Prairie. Tranquil and detached.
Later, when we stop, Sylvia has tears in her eyes from the wind, and she stretches out her arms and says, "It’s so beautiful. It’s so empty."
…I show Chris how to spread his jacket on the ground and use an extra shirt for a pillow. He is not at all sleepy but I tell him to lie down anyway, he’ll need the rest. I open up my own jacket to soak up more heat. John gets his camera out.
After a while he says, "This is the hardest stuff in the world to photograph. You need a three-hundred-and-sixty degree lens, or something. You see it, and then you look down in the ground glass and it’s just nothing. As soon as you put a border on it, it’s gone." “

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“ Beyond is another country. Mountain lakes and pines and snowfields are below. Above and beyond them as far as we can see are farther mountain ranges covered with snow. The high country.
…We stop and park at a turnoff where a number of tourists take pictures and look around at the view and at one other. At the back of his cycle John removes his camera from the saddlebag. From my own machine I remove the tool kit “

NOTE: While I Henry Gurr, was taking these photos you are looking at, John was photographing. Several months later, he sent me 20 photographs, which you will see at the end of this Album.

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