Brad Hurley

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Musician, photographer, environmental writer and editor

The rising sun creates a diffraction flare over a large field with scattered trees on the horizon.
A bunch of echinacea flowers, viewed from above, and out-of-focus highlights form a swirling pattern.
A person stands on a boat dock beyond the shoreline, with the tree-lined opposite shoreline visible in the distance in this heavily textured photo.
An old Québec house from the 1700s is flanked by low bushes and trees.
Trees rise from a sun-dappled grassland with ferns and low shrubs visible in the foreground.
A flock of Canada geese advances toward the camera in this infrared-film scene.
A run-of-river hydroelectric plant rises above low bushes and trees made white by this infrared film, with high clouds overhead and some geese vaguely visible in the foreground.
Tree branches full of leaves are superimposed on each other in this double exposure of a river and the opposite shore.
A lone woman dressed in black walks down a stone-dust path flanked by high bushes and grasses with a cloudy sky overhead.
A jar of beer, most of it already inside the out-of-focus woman behind the table, sits on a metal café table on a porch in the light of an early summer evening.
Four sneakers are suspended on a power or telephone line, with a utility pole rising up into the sky behind them.
Tree trunks stand on a grassy, sun-dappled hillside.
Two gulls fly overhead, silhouetted in a mostly cloudy sky.
A tall spruce tree reaches toward the middle-left of the frame, with lower trees filling the bottom of the frame to the right.
Two children on a footbridge look down at a koi pond, their reflections visible in the water. Trees frame the view on both sides, and Montréal's Olympic Tower is visible in the distance.
Two pine trees tower above a large rock in this highly textured black-and-white photo.
A pagoda and surrounding trees fill the bottom half of this highly textured black-and-white photo.
Broad-leaved grasses are in focus in the foreground, with out-of-focus grasses in the background creating patterns of light and dark.
The Olympic Tower in Montréal rises above a few trees; the sun, appearing near the top right of the image, creates a circular diffraction flare around the top of the tower.
A woodland path lit by dappled sunlight extends into the distance, flanked by trees and low undergrowth.
A garish storefront, festooned and surrounded with lights, illuminates this night-time street scene with a pair of pedestrians walking by on the right.
A view down a "time tunnel" installation at Complexe Desjardins in Montréal; the dates 1974, 1976, and 1978 are visible, advancing toward the 2020s in the distance. A teenage boy walks by the end of the tunnel.
A large mural covering the side of a building, showing an old woman with pointed glasses wielding a can of spray-paint.
Clothespins on an umbrella-style clothesline are displayed in varying degrees of focus with lots of anamorphic style vertical out-of-focus highlights in the background.
A split stick with a rock shoved into the split (making it look like a joyful person with upstretched arms) stands in front of a small river with trees on the opposite bank.
A spruce tree, flanked by other trees, rises into the sky in this hazy-looking photo; the haze is caused by strong halation in this x-ray film.
An old-fashioned Dairy Queen sign stands against a partly cloudy sky
Low clouds hang over a deep-green grassy hillside that slants upward from left to right. Near the center of the horizon, a dome-shaped landfill methane capture pod is visible.
Young trees with early spring leaves line a wide path through a wooded area.
A tour boat floats in Montréal's port harbour, with the Tour du Port de Montréal rising in the distance.
Two young women stand, one with her arms draped around the other, in front of a vintage clothing shop in the Plateau district of Montréal.
A pine tree sits on a grassy hillside with other trees in the background in this highly textured photograph (the texture is from the washi paper on which film emulsion has been coated).
The grated surface of a café table appears in the bottom of the frame, with the distorted surface of a water glass filling the rest of the image. Trees and houses are visible through the water glass.
A portion of John William Waterhouse's painting "A Mermaid" is visible on the left side of a bathroom wall, with complex shadows from ventian blinds and tree branches and leaves projected onto the wall and a tile shower at right.
A stout old cottonwood tree lifts its thick branches toward the sky.
Backlit trees and dandelion-spangled grass, with bright, hazy highlights caused by this film's lack of an antihalation layer.
The backlit trunks of trees rise from the grass- and dandelion-covered ground. The scene is full of hazy bright spots and patches due to this film's lack of an antihalation layer.
A narrow path between a thick stand of spruce trees fades into the distance.
A blurry photograph of a stand of flax in bloom in a rock garden by the side of a road.
A thin, sectioned tower reaches into a sky of haze and puffy clouds.
A shadow cast by a a hanging plant from a porch ceiling makes a mysterious shape on a textured stucco wall.
A pair of adult Canada geese and their young goslings walk up a grassy hillside with trees in the distance.
A bunch of chives in bloom, with an out-of-focus garden behind them.
A double exposure of a path through tall grasses to trees at the top of a hill. The camera was moved up for the second exposure, so the path appears again where the sky should be above the trees. The photo was shot with infrared-sensitive B&W film, making the green of the grasses and the trees turn white.
A variety of small cacti in pots on display on a greenhouse bench.
A metal café table occupies the bottom third of this image; a glass of water sits on the table and behind it is the blurred shape of a woman who was moving her head while the photo was being taken. The porch ceiling slants down from the top.
A suspension bridge's cables and suspenders, looking up through the front window of a train on the bridge.
Train tracks in a tunnel are gradually illuminated as they approach the end of the tunnel, which appears in the centre of the frame.
A long line of people wait to get into one of Montréal's more popular ice cream shops.
A diptych of a painting of a small boy, illuminated by light passing through tree leaves, with the shadow of the photographer's hand appearing on the wall below the painting in both frames of the diptych.
Heavy tangles of vines cover a series of mill structures, with a river visible in the distance.
A small stand of sensitive ferns rises in the foreground above a cattail marsh with trees, a bridge, and a building visible in the distance.
Last year's flowerheads of staghorn sumacs are silhouetted against a cloudy sky with the sun trying to break through.
Last summer's dried grasses lie strewn on the top of a small hill beneath a partly cloudy sky.
A blurry photo looking up to tree branches covered in small early-spring leaves.
A view taken through the top of an umbrella hole in the middle of an outdoor café table; the bottom umbrella hole is visible above a wooden floor, along with four supports, striped by shadows from the metal grid on the top of the table.
A metal outdoor dining table is partially superimposed on its shadow on a wall, along with the shadow of a person's claw-like hand.
A beaver lodge sits in a flooded swamp, with a band of phragmites and cattails visible at the water's edge on the far side, with conifers and bare deciduous trees rising up to the sky.
Young spring shoots of cattails push through the rubble of last year's dead stalks, with a cloudy sky above.
The pebble-strewn ground occupies the bottom quarter of this image, followed by a pond and then the opposite shore and the sky above. Pine tree branches fill the top half of the frame; a bare-branched tree leaning over the water fills most of the left side, along with its reflections in the water.