SILVER CREEK

These two images were taken on a cold January 18, 2013 in Coolidge-McLean Park in Silverton. To me, they cannot help but recall some of the photographs of June Drake that I have been exposed to. Mr. Drake was a local commercial photographer in the early 20th century. He took portraits, photographs of events in town and what I imagine were his personal images, of Silver Creek and, most importantly, the area that was to become Silver Falls State Park. It was his photography that singularly helped sell the idea of the park to the state. With myriad trails and ten dramatically different waterfalls, it is the largest state park in Oregon. Silver Creek is fed by those falls...