Chad Montgomery

2024–in progress

Everything Else

Not everything becomes a project, and pretending otherwise produces bad projects. This is where the single pictures go: frames that work on their own and have no series to belong to.

There is a bias in it I did not plan and am not going to argue with. Bridges from underneath, an empty pier, a highway at night, a bollard photographed like a portrait, a numbered life raft in a museum. Given a choice between a landscape and the infrastructure standing in front of it, I keep photographing the infrastructure.

If enough of these turn out to be the same picture, that will be the next project.

The twin summits of Golden Ears lit pink by alpenglow above a dark blue ridge of forest, clear lilac sky behind.
Alpenglow on Golden EarsMaple Ridge, BC
A snow-covered peak catching the last light above a bank of fog lying across dark trees and a flat harvested field in the foreground.
Fog on the valley floor
Burrard Inlet seen through a gap in dark conifers, low cloud filling the water below and snow peaks on the far shore.
Cloud in the inletBurnaby Mountain, Burnaby, BC
Two bridges and the Vancouver skyline compressed into flat golden layers of haze by a long lens at sunrise.
Bridges, compressedPort Mann, BC
A thirty-second exposure down a divided highway at night, white headlight trails on one carriageway and red tail lights on the other, dark forest either side.
Highway 99, thirty secondsBritish Columbia
A wet suburban arterial at night, green traffic signals repeated down the road and reflected in long streaks on the asphalt.
Green, repeated
Looking up into the riveted steel underside of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge, the truss splaying overhead and the inlet visible beneath.
Under the Ironworkers MemorialNorth Vancouver, BC
Black and white view of the downtown Vancouver waterfront, Canada Place sails and a moored cruise ship below a wall of towers.
WaterfrontVancouver, BC
A cast iron mooring bollard on a worn timber wharf, photographed frontally, with anchored freighters and mountains flattened behind it.
BollardVancouver Harbour, BC
An opened cylindrical life raft container displayed frontally on a museum deck, its contents numbered and laid out in rows.
Life raft, opened and numberedUSS Midway Museum, San Diego
A pale, almost empty frame of White Rock pier and a breakwater across flat water, one small figure standing in the shallows at bottom right.
One person, White Rock pierWhite Rock, BC
The blue painted front of a fish and chip shop with large white Moby Dick lettering, a model lighthouse between two curtained windows.
Moby DickWhite Rock, BC
The apex of a roof cutting a hard diagonal V across an otherwise empty pale blue sky.
Roofline
Vertical frame of a rainforest interior, moss hanging in long ropes from bare maple limbs above dense ferns.
Moss on maple