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Jackson Frishman
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Landscape photographer, opportunistic writer, geology enthusiast, ex-river guide, opera fan, omnivorous reader, living in the Inland Northwest.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · Nov 18
What am I about? Foremost, my passion is loving and understanding the American West. I've been lucky to inhabit and explore a lot of its less familiar corners. This is a tiny sample representing four of my particular fascinations: wild rivers, geology, the Inland Northwest and the Great Basin.
Glassy green water forms the entrance to a whitewater rapid lined with rocks and boulders on an Idaho wilderness river A subalpine tree juxtaposed with a colorful geologic fold visible as an S-curve of red, white and blue stripes in metamorphic rock A wooded mountain with snow up high rises out of a lake of fog at sunrise Rock formations in alternating shadow and sun stretching towards distant snowy peaks under storm clouds
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.
Black toad (Bufo exsul)
Grand Canyon pink rattlesnake
Wolverine
Pacific lamprey
Feral Bactrian camel
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild.

Beluga whale
Cheetah
Shining Sunbeam
Pronghorn
Hammerhead shark
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Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

Gray Wolf
Mountain Goat
Golden Eagle
Sea otter
American crocodile
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Some Thanksgiving-ish images and musings:
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#landscapephotography #easternwashington #autumn #palouse #inlandnorthwest
The Perfect Loveliness of Home
“Why so glorious in the fall? Biology and astronomy reach a showy crescendo, and who could it be for? .… Maybe it’s for no one, a happenstance of grace the world can’t help making, as if divinity f…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Some Thanksgiving-ish images and musings:
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#landscapephotography #easternwashington #autumn #palouse #inlandnorthwest
The Perfect Loveliness of Home
“Why so glorious in the fall? Biology and astronomy reach a showy crescendo, and who could it be for? .… Maybe it’s for no one, a happenstance of grace the world can’t help making, as if divinity f…
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November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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“Why so glorious in the fall? Biology and astronomy reach a showy crescendo, and who could it be for? .… Maybe it’s for no one, a happenstance of grace the world can’t help making, as if divinity found a crack in the end of October and is gushing through.” -Craig Childs
#landscapephotography #larch
Photograph of thickly wooded hillside with a large number of bright yellow autumn larch trees. The larches, in a thick stand in a hill at the bottom of the image, more sparse further up the slopes, are backlit and glowing vividly against a ground of dark green conifers.
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Big Creek, ID Panhandle National Forest #Idaho #photography #Idahophotography #forest #creek #autumn
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Note to self: check homeowners insurance.
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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I'm not much of a salesman, but I do have photography calendars available. This year I went with abstract nature images. The cat knows you want one!
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My 2026 calendar of abstract nature images, on an afghan rug, being trodden on by a small calico cat, who very much hopes calendar sales will be spent on cat treats.
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Something small, Bufo exsul, a tiny toad that lives only at a set of springs surrounded by vast stretches of California desert, isolated from other amphibians, adrift in its own watery cosmos.

#BlueSkyArtShow #small #toad #amphibian #californiadesert #desertwildlife
Photograph of very small toad on a blade of grass above pond algae. The toad is mottled black a dull green with a prominent pale dorsal stripe. The bulges and bubbles in the algae emphasize the smallness of the scene, as do the three blades of green grass crossing the scene at angles.
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Autumn mood
#landscapephotography #autumn #idaho #idahopanhandle #inlandnorthwest #fog
Vertical landscape photo of a scene with autumn trees, fog and a creek. The creek is flowing through a steep bed of large rounded cobbles and small boulders. The smattering of yellow trees is set amidst a mountainside thickly wooded with evergreens, with the fog playing and extruding tendrils among them.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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November in lonely country, north-central Washington
#landscapephotography #easternwashington #aspen #autumn #okanogan
Landscape photograph of waning autumn aspens on grassy shrbby slopes. Most of the yellow aspens are in a thicket in the foreground above a small pond. To the right of the pond is another lone yellow tree, while a stand of bare aspens sits further off. The slopes appear to drop towards a lower valley at top right, past which can be seen darker wooded hillsides.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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November in lonely country, north-central Washington
#landscapephotography #easternwashington #aspen #autumn #okanogan
Landscape photograph of waning autumn aspens on grassy shrbby slopes. Most of the yellow aspens are in a thicket in the foreground above a small pond. To the right of the pond is another lone yellow tree, while a stand of bare aspens sits further off. The slopes appear to drop towards a lower valley at top right, past which can be seen darker wooded hillsides.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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A nine-banded armadillo standing on its hind legs with its head slightly tilted to regard me from its vantage point behind some blurry foliage in the foreground.
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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November retrospective, 5, 10 and 15 years ago (apparently I made literally not one photo in Nov '24, so we're skipping one year ago): Selway River, ID; Eureka Valley, CA; Bandelier Nat Monument, NM
#landscapephotography #idaho #newmexico #californiadesert
Landscape photograph of a whitewater rapid in a forested river canyon. Snow patches are mingles with the jade green of the wooded riversides, while the foreground is dominated by large boulders at the edge of the rapid. A chilly looking cloudy sky is slightly visible downstream. Photograph of an abandoned mining structure high above a desert valley. The mining structure is mostly shadowed timbers with a metal wheel up top. A cliff outcrop with layered striations tilted up to vertical can be seen nearby, while farther away and far below is a barren valley floor leading to geologically complex mountains at the top of the image. Vertical photograph of an autumn tree in a high desert canyon. The canyon has distinctly striped walls of soft-looking sedimentary rock, and appears to feed into a larger canyon at top right. A small tree with golden leaves dominates the canyon bottom. A ponderosa pine is growing on the slopes, while a number of other deciduous trees appear bare or mostly bare of leaves.
November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Dunno what everyone's complaining about, this Christmas mural is totally on-brand for 2025.
mattthr.bsky.social Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 10d
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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This is the new startup magazine I write geology pieces and photograph for. Idaho folks, gonna say it straight up, we'd really appreciate your buying some copies, off the shelf or subscription!
#idaho #idahoescape
idahoscenics.bsky.social Idaho Scenic Images @idahoscenics.bsky.social · 11d
I haven't been here for a long time, oops! So busy making Idaho's best magazine. The Winter issue is on the way to stores now. Preview the sample at www.seasonsofthe208.com. It really is amazing! #magazine #idaho #photography #Idahostories #idahomagazine #seasonsofthe208
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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For #MountainMonday this week I have this photograph of some clouds clearing on the side of Mount Cheam (Lhílheqey) in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Chilliwack #BritishColumbia #Photography #Photo
A conifer forested mountain slope is revealed as clouds clear in a triangular shape on the side of a mountain. The remainder of the frame is filled with clouds. There is a touch of fresh snow on the trees at the higher elevations.
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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As someone else whose intro to falconry involved a goshawk (not a beginner bird!), respect to Claire Foy! Can't wait to see this film.
hjm.bsky.social Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · 12d
Oh this is LOVELY. Claire talking about her role in H is for Hawk. She is not only an astonishing actor but an extraordinarily accomplished natural hawk-handler, entirely in tune with the birds

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A still from the H is for Hawk movie with Claire (as Helen) looking through a rolled-up magazine at a playful goshawk on a perch
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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I always love a kingfisher!
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Lifting storm, bright fog
#BlueSkyArtShow #bright #landscapephotography #californiadesert #greatbasin #deepsprings #pogonip
Photograph of bare winter elm trees under luminous fog. The elm branches are whitened with hoarfrost and seem to glow in the light breaking through. Behind them are steep, rugged mountain slopes, almost entirely snow-covered. At the base of the trees can be glimpsed irrigation wheel lines with low ranch buildings behind. The bottom of the scene is a bright flat snowy field, and the top melts into luminous foggy cloud.
November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Made this one tonight, it's very easy and I really liked the unusual combo of tamarind, pomegranate and dill.
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Beautiful light on a splendid toad!
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Our friend the African Green Toad lives in northern Africa from Morocco to Egypt and has a subspecies that lives on several Italian islands! Their large, oval-shaped parotoid glands make them easy to tell apart from other closely related toads! (photo by svenhop)
A closeup of a tan colored toad with large green and black splotches! They have a very large, oval-shaped parotoid gland over twice the size of their eye!
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Wow. But hey, at least someone's still making classical references!
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Aspen reverie, north-central Washington, about 10 days ago.
#landscapephotography #autumn #washington #aspen #inlandnprthwest #okanogan
Landscape photograph of an autumn aspen grove, edging towards abstract but not quite there. The scene is densely textured with small bare branches, punctuated by several more prominent white aspen trunks, with golden leaves like a yellow mist at the top of the scene.
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I lived in this area about 18 years ago and loved it. This is one of the best Needle Rock images I've seen!
timothykeeneyphotography.com Timothy Keeney @timothykeeneyphotography.com · 17d
I dug out an older image for todays share. This is Needle Rock near Crawford, Colorado under one of the most beautiful sunsets I saw during my time in the state - and there were a lot to choose from!
#timothykeeneyphotography #photography #landscapephotography #colorado #sunset
Autumn image of Colorado’s Needle Rock with peaks of the West Elk Mountains in the background and under a sunset sky with pink clouds.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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We’re snailposting, post your snails.
This chap was one of hundreds on a spring hike near the Lochsa River in northern Idaho. That region seems to see a snail boom every spring.
Closeup photo of brown snail on a forest floor amid wet brown fallen leaves and tiny green mosses and leaves.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM