Pioneer Series Volume 3 - Ron Church Boxed edition (Boxed numbered and in a slip case) In the early 1960s, Ron Church turned his experienced eye to surfing. With a background in both aquanaut and ’50s flight-test photography, with La Jolla, California roots, Church became captivated with the sport just as it was beginning to morph from a sleepy, evocative pastime into a full-on commercialized lifestyle. From ’60 –’65, Church recorded its last bits of innocence beginning in California, moving to Oahu’s big-wave fields, and then back to California. Acclaimed graphic designer/publisher Tom Adler creates small-run collectable art books featuring surf photography (i.e., Don James: San Onofre to Point Dume, 1936-1941, Dora Lives, and Surfing Photographs From The Seventies Taken By Jeff Divine). Adler utilizes his own distinctive eye to select and combine offbeat, subtle images that end up making magic on the pages. This, his second book from the files of Ron Church (following SURF CONTEST, published early 2006) is an exploratory joint effort between The Journal and T. Adler Books.