Jackson Frishman

Ashflow and Aspen Nevada often feels like endless blank space, and that’s part of its appeal. But equally appealing is the knowledge that there are secrets to be found in that emptiness: for instance, this sma…

A longer overdue set from a magical place hidden in the great Nevada emptiness
#landscapephotography #greatbasin #nevada

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If you like bird images, this account deserves a lot more than 22 followers!
#naturephotography #photography #birds

Love it!

The song in there is a lot better than my 6th grade one. Though of course it hits very different now.

Landscape photograph of a small desert stream reaching the end of its flow. The setting is a wide valley of barren desert, with only a few shrubs growing, a dark mountain range in the background under mostly cloudy morning sky. The foreground is a sandy wash with crinkly dry silt patterns. The pale blue stream flows into this wash, braiding out into branching fingers as the flow ends just in front of the camera.

When #flowing reaches its end...
#BlueSkyArtShow #desertwater #californiadesert #landscapephotography

Was "They got a lot of water at the Grand Coulee Dam" part of that set? That one came up in sixth grade science in Montana. Guthrie could sure write songs, even if I like to think his take on the eastern WA New Deal might be pretty different in retrospect.

Nice to see someone else wanted to go with flowing rocks!

Yeah, "hope" needs and deserves more punk connotations, and that's becoming clearer every day.

Photograph of alpine scenery with colorful geology under orange sunset clouds. The scene encompasses a high ridgeline with red peaks and some snow. In front of the peaks, attentions is grabbed a a large crag of mostly gray stone banded with orange. A dramatic geologic fold is visible at left forming a tight s-curve of orange banding. Below the crag can be seen an alpine lake with its outlet stream looking very small as it flows into a steep stony canyon.

...and because someone is going to wonder why I didn't include something for scale... it wasn't exactly feasible.
#landscapephotograph #geology

Photograph of geologic folding in colorful rock. The background rock is blueish-gray, with the folding visible in prominent orange and tan bands. The banding forms a tight s-curve fold, with numerous smaller scale kinks visible. Nothing in the image gives a sense of scale, see reply for a shot where the scale is made clear.

#Flowing ... it's not just for water, sometimes rocks want in on the action.
#BlueSkyArtShow #geology #metamorphicrock

Nice shot. Damn ironic that that's WA's state folk song when when so little of the Columbia actually rolls on freely.

I always wanted to spend more time in there, but my parents and their free-flowing wine in Magdalena made it challenging. It's such beautiful, lonely, haunted country.

River Studies Safeguard Our Regional Future In 2023 and 2024, the Washington State Legislature acted with clear foresight, directing state agencies to evaluate options for maintaining water, energy, recreation, and transportation services in th...

In 2023 and 2024, the Washington State Legislature directed state agencies to evaluate options for maintaining water, energy, recreation, and transportation services in the absence of the four lower Snake River dams.

🔎 Explore their findings: www.americanrivers.org/2026/02/rive...

...while viewing endless Wasatch sprawl beside that abused and doomed but still beautiful lake was a moment when I could no longer deny what I already knew. We, and many other people, need to be somewhere else.

We no longer live in the Southwest because we visited Salt Lake City while I was reading The Water Knife by @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social. Walking Antelope Island with that deeply dark vision of water dystopia in my head...

THE COLORADO RIVER DOES NOT REACH 2030 A Thought Exercise in Western Water, from the Near Future

Deadpan near-future (very near) water collapse sci-fi. Well worth a read, and if you follow this stuff you'll know that nothing in here is at all far-fetched.
#southwest #water #scifi #coloradoriver

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Pretty damn sweet shot, Matt! The spread on those primary feathers...

Will do. We've been online acquaintances so long, I'm definitely looking forward to reading your long work! And the subject matter is very much to my taste.

Just pre-ordered. Something to look forward to!

I can definitely not disprove that this happened to me last week in Wallace, Idaho. Fits the facts. I'm still sore.

A snoozing aardvark is far better than anything else you'll see online today.

I think the matrix here is schist, not sure about the inclusion and the band. The geology around there is quite complex. There is limestone and marble in the area, but this isn't it.

I'm sure that bittern's not as fat as it looks, but man, it looks like a prosperous bird. The camo too... Love it!

Yeah, when I look at the controversy over windmills here on the Palouse, it sure feels futile if it'd all just go to AI trash and crypto.

I'm an art photographer with a love of geology, not an illustrator of technical papers. I'd say this frame is about half a meter wide, though.

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

Closeup photo of rock outcrop, in which somewhat straified-looking vertically tilted dark gray-green stone surrounds an oval of green and orange rock, with a prominent band of pale green rock present at the right of the image.

From my latest set, a nice rock exposure in Hells Canyon
#RockinTuesday #geology #idahogeology #hellscanyon

Saqanma Details I’m still working through older material that has fallen through the cracks, e.g. these more intimate images from Saqánma (a.k.a. Hells Canyon) in 2021. Has it really been that long? This edg…

Older photos, newly posted: scenes from Hells Canyon
#landscapephotography #idaho #hellscanyon #saqanma #idahorivers #idahoescape

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Here in the Pacific NW, it's the salmon that get all the attention re. the dams, but ecologically and culturally for Native peoples, the lampreys are just as big a deal.

Photograph of mostly eclipsed moon setting over desert landscape. The moon hangs in a deep blue cloudless sky, above a prominent colcanic neck forming a very steep sided butte on the horizon. The foreground is full of badland scenery with substantial snow, and is lit a gentle gold by the pre-dawn light behind the camera.

Good luck to anyone shooting the eclipse tonight. It'll be a bit too high in the sky in my local area, but people further east and maybe close to big mountains should have some possibilities. This one was in 2011 in New Mexico.
#landscapephotography #eclipse #newmexico #desertwinter