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byMichelle Esteban, KOMO News reporter/anchorTuesday, July 13th 2021AAhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.471.1_en.html#goog_1804515114Volume 90%3VIEW ALL PHOTOSThe Coleman Glacier on Mount Baker is melting rapidly as seen in pictures captured from a local photographer. (KOMO)

New images reveal the drastic change that’s happening on Mount Baker.

The “Coleman Glacier” is not what it used to be.

A local photographer who has photographed every glacier in the lower 48 for geologists and glaciologists was so stunned by what he saw – that he shared it on social media.

“I was fascinated by mountains and mountain processes,” said photographer John Scurlock, who is also a pilot that gets up close from the cockpit of his van known as VR-6.

“I literally have photographed that mountain 100,000 times,” Scurlock said during an interview Tuesday at a waterfront park on Bainbridge Island.

He’s talking about Mount Baker, the icon of the North Cascades. There’s one feature…