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Jackson Frishman

@jfrishman.bsky.social

Landscape photographer, opportunistic writer, geology enthusiast, ex-river guide, opera fan, omnivorous reader, living in the Inland Northwest. https://frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/ https://www.frishmanphoto.com/ #photography #washingtonstate #landscape

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Alexander S. Kunz @alex-kunz.com · yesterday

#PhotoBlog: "Seeing Time" www.alex-kunz.com/time/

Seeing Time

I first saw this quote posted somewhere online, without attribution, a long, long time ago… and while letting Lightroom dig through a bunch of folders, I stumbled upon the screenshot I had made back…

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2d ago

If, like me, you're gearing up to make a public comment on the Roadless Rule rollback, this piece has some good data for you. #publiclands #roadlessrule #conservation westwise.substack.com/p/the-forest...

The Forest Service’s own review finds repealing the Roadless Rule could increase wildfire risk and harm communities

The Trump administration wants you to believe repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule is about wildfire safety and local control. Its own environmental review says otherwise.

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2d ago

A different perspective on #chaos: three images from a region of very convoluted geology known as the Amargosa Chaos #BlueSkyArtShow #landscapephotography #geology #deathvalley #amargosa #desertflora #wildflowers

Landscape photo of golden wildflowers blooming on stony desert slopes in front of colorful orange mountains lit by a band of warm evening light breaking through clouds

Vertical photo of a cliff wall with colorful and complex geology. The overall pattern appears as parallel chevrons of purple rock set amidst orange and cream colors.

Photograph of a geologically complex desert canyon lit by warm reflected light. A green shrub in the foreground grows out of the rocky floor of the wash. The cliffs and outcrops behind are mostly rich orange, with a fang-shaped section of purple visible in the far wall.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 3d ago

A moody take on #chaos, from a bit of a dark time #BlueSkyArtShow #naturephotography

Photograph of a tangles thicket of plant stems. Bright thin lines of long dry stalks crisscross the entire frame without evident pattern or logic. The image almost appears monochrome, but close attention reveals it as very muted color, mostly quite pale browns and grays with hints of the slightest jade green in the background.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wonderfully poor word choice here, reminds me of this poem by Billy Collins:

The Country
by Billy Collins

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.

Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe

behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,

the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time—

now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,

lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh so now we know the bear’s state of mind

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 5d ago

For #WorldPhotographyDay, four shots of luscious light #landscapephotography #montana #arizona #idaho #newmexico

Photograph of pink and purple dawn skies behind clouds, reflected symmetrically in perfectly calm lake water, with a narrow band of trees between

Vertical photograph of a steep desert canyon with a small curving stream at the bottom. The canyon walls are made of orange and yellow rock. Sunlight illuminates the cliffs warmly at the top of the image, and that light is reflected in portions of the stream below.

Photograph of a dramatic morning light beam shining into a large steep canyon with a river at the bottom.

Vertical photograph of dramatic rock formations laced with snow, illuminated orange by the last light of a winter sunset benath dark blue clouds.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last wk.

Some Augusts past... frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/a...

August 2026 Throwbacks

Looking back 15, 10 and 5 years… August 2011 did not see much camera use from me, but I did get out for a leg stretcher in the Santa Fe mountains to see the aftermath of the Pacheco Fire. Per…

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last wk.

Confluence again #landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #snakeriver #salmonriver #hellscanyon #idaho #oregon #westernrivers

Photograph overlooking the confluence of two large rivers. The rivers from a Y shape of dark blue and green water in the lower half of the image. They are surrounded by steep slopes of tawny grass and dark rock outcrops. At the bottom of the image, a large green tree is partly silhouetted against the river water.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last wk.

Breath from the #Earth #Blueskyartshow #naturephotography #frost

Vertical photograph of a small hole rimmed with frost in ground covered by small leaves and lichens.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Three images of light on flowing water #landscapephotography frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/l...

Light and Flow

Stone, sky, sunlight and the Snake River all united into shining flow… The Loren Eiseley quote, “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water,” has become sorely ove…

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Three images of light on flowing water #landscapephotography frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/l...

Light and Flow

Stone, sky, sunlight and the Snake River all united into shining flow… The Loren Eiseley quote, “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water,” has become sorely ove…

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Confluence #landscapephotography #idaho #oregon #snakeriver #salmonriver #hellscanyon #inlandnorthwest

Landscape photograph of river canyon scenery in warm, smoky light. A large river flows across the lower half of the scene, and another sizable river can bee seen joining it. Downstream of the confluence is a large cobble island. The canyon slopes are mostly bare and covered in yellow summer grass with many dark rock outcrops. A stone knoll with grass stalks is in the bottom foreground and the sky is pale, smoky blue with just hints of clouds.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Four perspectives on a favorite subject: #water #BlueSkyArtShow #naturephotography

Photograph of a large rock nearly buried in violent, surging, somewhat motion-blurred whitewater

Photograph of silvery textured river surface. The top left portion is corrugated with delicate wind ripples, while the bottom right show boily textures from surging current.

Photograph of a small stream petering out on mud-cracked ground in a vast desert valley, under pale yellowish clouds in a blue sky. The stream braids out into reaching finger as it approaches the camera, with the fingers of water stopping their flow near the bottom of the image.

Photograph of glassy, sculpted-looking river water flowing shallowly over submerged stone. The water seems to form a a curved sloping bowl, with a bubbly recirculation feature behind it at top left. The glassy water is reflecting blue sky and orange light, with a dark brown fan shape interspersed.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

WatchDuty is blowing up in the Palouse. Malden, the town that burned in 2020, is now Level 3 evac. And there's another fire by Colfax. This sucks. #Palouse #fire #wawx

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Four perspectives on a favorite subject: #water #BlueSkyArtShow #naturephotography

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bandcamp Friday purchases, #1: Estuaire, a gorgeous collaboration between Senegalese koro player Ablaye Cissoko and Persian-Canadian setar player Kiya Tabassian. #music #bandcampfriday ablayecissoko.bandcamp.com/album/estuaire

Estuaire, by Ablaye Cissoko, Constantinople

11 track album

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 3w ago

An oyster calling song for National Oyster Day #oyster #nationaloysterday #folkmusic #scottishmusic youtu.be/zWYKr7E5XX0?...

Dreg Song

YouTube video by Archie Fisher - Topic

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Outdoor recreation gear - my god, the stuff we took backpacking when I was a kid was terrible (though still better than a generation earlier). A new pair of hiking shoes was torture.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3w ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

@zzorgon.bsky.social · 4w ago

#nightmusic Vieux Farka Touré’s dad Ali opened the west’s ears to music from the Sahel region of Africa & the roots of American blues. He didn’t want his son Vieux going into ANY music, but Vieux did so anyway on the sly. A bit of good rebellion. Have a good night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Ui...

Les Racines

YouTube video by Vieux Farka Toure - Topic

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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sinlahekin Valley, Washington last fall, currently burning #landscapephotography #easternwashington #wildfire #wawx

Landscape image of an autumn valley at twilight, with stands of golden aspen and cottonwood along side bare riparian trees and conifers. Steep rocly slopes are in the background and the sky is subtle blue and pale yellow.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last mo.

Glassy water, Selway River, Idaho #BlueSkyArtShow #glass #idaho #idahorivers #wildandscenicrivers #selwaybitterroot

Photograph of smooth glassy river water flowing over shallow rocks, creating elegant ripples which are reflecting light as bright silver

Andy Zahn @andyzahn.bsky.social · last mo.

I managed to snap this photo at exactly the right moment! What a fantastic storm! #wawx

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last mo.

I was just contemplating this effect on air quality websites. Likewise, WatchDuty screenshots can make things look much worse than they are, ditto Caltopo's fire activity layer. All useful, but you gotta zoom in and care about details. #wildfire

AnthropoceneMan 🦋 ✅@anthropoceneman.bsky.social · last mo.

Adventures in #symbology driven data aggregation in web-map #cartography. Don’t let your #map be led down a path toward unforced errors in interpretation. Three views, same #data. Pick the #RightTool4TheJob #GIS #Isopleth

Data aggregation and consolidated onto a symbology scheme that misrepresents the data at different scales.

Mapped Oregon air quality showing various particulate levels…and unhealthy air conditions (purple) for Eugene Oregon.

Lack of other values indicates the whole of the Willamette Valley is having a bad AQ day.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last mo.

#ThrowbackThursday July edition: images from 1, 5, 10 and 15 years ago, in Alaska, Idaho, California and Nevada #landscapephotography #greatbasin #inlandnorthwest #sierranevada

Photograph of a lighthouse on a small island under dramatic snowy peaks and a subtly pink sunrise sky

Vertical photo of a clear green river rushing through foreground boulders, a whitewater rapid, and under a stone outcrop capped by moss and trees

Landscape photo of an alpine lake at sunrise. The lake's blue waters give way to a stony granite shore with a tiny island. The granite rises up in cliffs behind, culminating in a mountain peak lit by yellow sunlight.

Vertical photograph of jade-green sagebrush slopes decorated with purple and red flowers, overlooking a valley that leads towards a dark ridge a few miles away. The sky is deeply stormy, mostly purple clouds with orange sunset light breaking through.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last mo.

Finally processed a few photos from last month, some delightfully stormy weather in the uplands of northeast Washington. #landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington

Landscape photo of rolling wooded mountains under a sky full of storm clouds. A narrow line of sunlight illuminates a ridge near the bottom of the image.

Photo of a patch of blooming yellow wild buckwheat, plus a couple bitterroot flowers, growing on a grassy, windswept-looking ridge. I the distance are wooded ridges fading into the mist of rain clouds, which fill the sky.

Photo of textured blue and gray storm clouds above steep slopes of timber and open grass, below which is a large body of water.

Photograph of trees silhouetted against a very stormy and dramatic sky. The trees and the ridge they are growing on appear very dark. The right tree is a scruffy spinney of largely bare branches, while the one at left twists crookedly towards the sky with a sparse set of wizened limbs. The storm clouds behind the trees are mostly dark gray, but with two much lighter patches the seem to radiate from a thin spot at top center.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · last mo.

Finally processed a few photos from last month, some delightfully stormy weather in the uplands of northeast Washington. #landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This thread... Best thing I'll read this week

Nome@nome.bsky.social · last yr.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Post one photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands. Prophet Jonah from Sumela Monastery near Trabzon, Turkey

Photograph of Byzantine icon of the Prophet Jonah. Jonah is holding a scroll, and his legs are still in the mouth of a large red fish.

Roanna "Rowan" Floyd (aka Petty Davis)@roanna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Post one (1) photo of a painting that you took with your very own hands.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just some frozen mud... #BlueSkyArtShow #curve #photography #blackandwhite

Black and white image of frozen mud, showing an array of filigree curves overlapped a little by some grass stems welded into the ice.

Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At the tail end of #ForestFriday, some ponderosa parkland from northeast Washington #landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington

Vertical landscape photograph of two ponderosa pine trunks, backlit by the sun, casting angled shadows over a park-like spread of long, lush, green grass, in the midst of which is one purple blooming lupine.