These old photographs are taken from a top a lookout tower in Eastern Oregon, USA, most likely by the lookout himself. Every day, the lookout wakes at sunrise and scans the area 360 degrees around him looking for fires. Over months of seeing the same terrain, these massive landscapes become intimate scenes and land markers act as beacons to help locate fires.
The tiny lookout, perched atop a 6000 foot butte, is composed of one room with windows on all sides, and acts as an anchor point to hundreds of miles of landscape.
January 28, 2009, 6:27pm
