A Day in the Life of a Fire Lookout

November 6, 2012

Photographer Gary Yost hauled 120 pounds of photographic gear to the Gardner Lookout, on the East Paek of Mt. Tamalpais. His video documents the life of a fire lookout, keeping watch over the San Francisco Bay area over the course of two days.

It’s a lengthy video, but very well worth it… especially if you need to slow down the pace of your day.

Watching this video made me think a bit about how we spend our time, how we spend our days. There are jobs… and then there is this job.

Here’s a great description by Yost about his experience:

The stars up there are magnificent. The fog below is like a carpet of slow-motion ocean, illuminated from underneath by the lights of San Francisco, Marin and the East Bay. It was so beautiful that I couldn’t sleep.

More information on the video’s creator, and the process here.

// Side note: Yost has a pretty interesting background, and I can’t seem to shake the idea that his name seems really familiar to me. Maybe it’s the Atari connection, but I feel like it’s something else. I feel like I’ve heard his name somewhere before…

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