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![Path, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8872/17321763174_6d014f457c_k.jpg)
![Path, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8872/17321763174_6d014f457c_k.jpg)
Path, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 21 May 2015
Moral
Now the inevitable
As in tales of woe
The inexorable toll
It takes, it takes.
Robert Creeley (1926-2005): Moral, first published as an Alternative Press postcard, n.d., reprinted in Gnomic Verses in Echoes, 1994
![Gift Shop, near Woodland, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8757/18213955532_a80e5833d7_k.jpg)
![Gift Shop, near Woodland, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8757/18213955532_a80e5833d7_k.jpg)
Gift Shop, Woodland, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 28 May 2015
![Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7780/17680022129_eed18ddc73_k.jpg)
Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 19 May 2015
![Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7780/17680022129_eed18ddc73_k.jpg)
Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 19 May 2015
![Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7780/17680022129_eed18ddc73_k.jpg)
Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 19 May 2015
![Early Morning, Christmas Valley, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5345/17604383828_8da2fba52f_k.jpg)
![Early Morning, Christmas Valley, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5345/17604383828_8da2fba52f_k.jpg)
Early Morning, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 17 May 2015
![Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8774/16784453414_bf31647691_k.jpg)
![Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8774/16784453414_bf31647691_k.jpg)
Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham: photo by Austin Granger, 7 May 2015
![Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8774/16784453414_bf31647691_k.jpg)
Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham: photo by Austin Granger, 7 May 2015
![Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7661/17374929251_71489e711b_k.jpg)
Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 4 May 2015
![Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7661/17374929251_71489e711b_k.jpg)
Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 4 May 2015
![Erosion Control Structure, near Las Vegas, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7706/17338212011_7805267260_k.jpg)
![Erosion Control Structure, near Las Vegas, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7706/17338212011_7805267260_k.jpg)
Erosion Control Structure, near Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 1 May 2015
![Atop a Parking Garage, Portland | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8752/17327639201_9bfcea5af1_k.jpg)
![Atop a Parking Garage, Portland | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8752/17327639201_9bfcea5af1_k.jpg)
Atop a Parking Garage, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 30 April 2015
![Atop a Parking Garage, Portland | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8752/17327639201_9bfcea5af1_k.jpg)
Atop a Parking Garage, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 30 April 2015
![Atop a Parking Garage, Las Vegas | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8746/16682690073_a0048209c4_k.jpg)
![Atop a Parking Garage, Las Vegas | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8746/16682690073_a0048209c4_k.jpg)
Atop a Parking Garage, Las Vegas: photo by Austin Granger, 28 April 2015
![Car in a Wash, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8706/16671030564_6b08746ae3_k.jpg)
![Car in a Wash, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8706/16671030564_6b08746ae3_k.jpg)
Car in a Wash, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 27 April 2015
![Nude Girls, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7602/17269725195_f4abae2a48_k.jpg)
![Nude Girls, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7602/17269725195_f4abae2a48_k.jpg)
Nude Girls, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 25 April 2015
![Nude Girls, Nevada | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7602/17269725195_f4abae2a48_k.jpg)
Nude Girls, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 25 April 2015
![Jesus and Mary, Portland | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7587/17157448592_537c519ba3_k.jpg)
![Jesus and Mary, Portland | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7587/17157448592_537c519ba3_k.jpg)
Jesus and Mary, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 25 April 2015
![Pier, Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8825/16543606093_cb2660f5f9_k.jpg)
![Pier, Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8825/16543606093_cb2660f5f9_k.jpg)
Pier, Astoria, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 15 April 2015
![Pier, Columbia River, Astoria, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8825/16543606093_cb2660f5f9_k.jpg)
Pier, Astoria, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 15 April 2015
![Ruin, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8706/17149122195_2ab75ef3dd_k.jpg)
Ruin, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 14 April 2015
![Ruin, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8706/17149122195_2ab75ef3dd_k.jpg)
Ruin, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 14 April 2015
![Ruin, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8706/17149122195_2ab75ef3dd_k.jpg)
Ruin, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 14 April 2015
![Oyster Shells, Nahcotta, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8809/16910814830_e4e011b869_k.jpg)
![Oyster Shells, Nahcotta, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8809/16910814830_e4e011b869_k.jpg)
Oyster shells, Nahcotta, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 10 April 2015
![Oysterville, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8795/16907109470_948e7285f0_k.jpg)
![Oysterville, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8795/16907109470_948e7285f0_k.jpg)
Oystervile, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 9 April 2015
![Atop a Parking Garage, Portland | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8736/16990790106_00c83fef71_k.jpg)
![Atop a Parking Garage, Portland | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8736/16990790106_00c83fef71_k.jpg)
Atop a Parking Garage, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 2 April 2015
![Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7606/16391473763_d4d4d6f517_k.jpg)
![Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7606/16391473763_d4d4d6f517_k.jpg)
Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 2 April 2015
![Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon | by austin granger](https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7606/16391473763_d4d4d6f517_k.jpg)
Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 2 April 2015
![Along old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8665/16589014787_8acb20fd18_k.jpg)
![Along old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8665/16589014787_8acb20fd18_k.jpg)
Along Old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 12 March 2015
![Along old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8665/16589014787_8acb20fd18_k.jpg)
Along Old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 12 March 2015
![Van, Columbia River Gorge, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8625/16158171853_f2d0a39da4_k.jpg)
![Van, Columbia River Gorge, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8625/16158171853_f2d0a39da4_k.jpg)
Van, Columbia River Gorge, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 10 March 2015
![Abandoned Schoolhouse, Goodnoe Hills, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8624/16770206611_9d3ede5c4c_k.jpg)
![Abandoned Schoolhouse, Goodnoe Hills, Washington | by austin granger](https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8624/16770206611_9d3ede5c4c_k.jpg)
Abandoned Schoolhouse, Goodnoe Hills, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 9 March 2015
3 comments:
Tom,
Beautiful photographs. Thanks for introducing me to this photographer. A sense of inevitability pervades each scene. No humans--or at least I didn't see any--just our detritus and debris.
-David
Thanks very much for picking up on Granger, David -- I believe this instantly qualifies you as the last of the short-list cognoscenti. The wide angle/long view approach does indeed reduce the human to what may well be its proper place -- lilliputian at best, small and smaller, and doing its best to remove itself from the picture alogether, ASAP. The photographer notes that his son is present in the top shot here... too small to be seen.
The approach may leave out everything but the shadows and residue of the human, but in doing so it permits an awful lot of world to come in.
I've been following his work for some time now. He keeps getting better and better. The subject matter -- the exhaustion and emptiness of the West -- has, to my mind, never been done so well. And this latest step in his work, allowed by the use of a Noblex swing-lens camera, producing the vast panoramic effect without "stitching", is perfectly suited to that subject matter, the "last horizon", so to say. Of course, details of apparatus never matter much unless the apparatus is in the hands of a far-seeing master; but for my money, Granger's are that sort of hands, and his is that sort of eye.
it takes ...mmm...how would I translate that?
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