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Jackson Frishman
@jfrishman.bsky.social
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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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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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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 6d
Nice version, hadn't heard this one. My current favorite take is from Old Blind Dogs:
youtu.be/Y2FUBB97VSI?...
John Barleycorn
YouTube video by Old Blind Dogs - Topic
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 6d
Nice! That was my honeymoon trip, almost exactly 20 years ago.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 6d
Wonderful! The curiosity and problem solving look in those eyes and whiskers ❤️
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 7d
Calm autumn water
#BlueSkyArtShow #Relax #calm #lake #autumn #ICM #landscapephotography #idaho
Vertical photograph of reflected light on water. Only reflections are visible and nothing in the image is sharp or concrete. The reflected light is primarily pale yellow with hints of green. It is broken by darker vertical bars, which those accustomed to such scenes will recognize as reflections of tree trunks.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 8d
Autumn is only just coming on around here, but it's definitely in my thoughts. This one's a few years old.
#landscapephotography #autumn #fallcolor #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington #palouseautumn
Vertical photograph of autumn woodland scene: a hillside with a mix of jade green lichen colored branches plus a smattering of orange, red and yellow fall foliage.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 8d
Love this! The lichen + fall color palette is so evocative.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 8d
Joining the fun here...
#31DaysOfHalloween #Arachtober #spiders
#nature #photography
Photograph of a hunting spider in fallen leaves. The gray and tan spider is well camouflaged among the gray and dull orange leaf litter.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 9d
Trad published, but very small press, not sure how much those publishers still exist or are active. Things would be handled by his wife, i.e. my mom, but she doesn't have much bandwidth either, so I expect I'd be helping extensively.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 10d
My stepdad has several books in there. He's old and not at all well (Parkinsons), can't handle something like this on his own. What should I know to help him get whatever he's owed? Any advice/resources appreciated!
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 12d
Dr. Emily Taylor, who gets mentioned a lot in there, is active on Bluesky:
@emilytaylorscience.com
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 12d
Outstanding toad photo!
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Scott @scottjessimanphoto.bsky.social · 12d
Terence
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Good evening, folks. I've not got much for the weekly comps this week. Attempting to recover from a sprained ankle, walking isn't easy.
Went for a wee walk yesterday and met Terence the Toad.

#sharemondays2025 #fsprintmonday #Toad #nature #canon #35mm1.8
#Callander
A Toad peaking out of the foliage up in Callander on a walk at the weekend. Nice golden leaves to frame this wee Amphibian, which match its golden eyes.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 14d
Destination anywhere...

#TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow #fog #rainbow #californiadesert
Photograph of a desert ranch road heading into the middle of a fog rainbow. Sparse yellow desert plants are seen amidst bare ground on either side of the small, rather dilapidated road. The fog bow forms a complete arch with subtle color and a golden cast to it and its surrounding mist. There is blue sky overhead. All other details are shrouded by the mist.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 15d
More, and commentary:
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Thin Fire
Not long ago, I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. One line stayed with me: “Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these—‘Chloe liked Olivia. . .’ Do not start. Do not blush...
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 15d
A lush, Wagnerian setting of Sappho:
#music #classicalmusic #sappho #orchestralsong
youtu.be/iBWc3YzJ7Uk?...
Bantock: Sappho: I. Hymn to Aphrodite
YouTube video by Susan Bickley - Topic
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 15d
Looks like the idaho Panhandle 😉
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 15d
Yeah, those sand streaks really caught my eye! Wish I had the real camera...
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 15d
Damn, glad you're okay! Get that rest.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 15d
Perhaps of moderate interest: cell phone snaps from my flight from Vegas to Albuquerque last week. Colorado hitting Lake Mead, lower Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Brocken spectre.
Aerial image of silty Colorado River entering blue water of Lake Mead, surrounded by tawny desert geology. Aerial image of Colorado River flowing through stripy orange and tan layers of the lower Grand Canyon. Aerial image of Arizona's Painted Desert. Badland erosion in orange strata at lower left, top right has distinct streaks of tan sand being blown off a rimrock formation. A Brocken spectre image of airplane surrounded by circular rainbow appears in a cloud, with a glimpse of brown desert landscape below.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 17d
I want to know more about the provenance of the video, but from the comment thread, it sounds very encouraging that this is legit!
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 17d
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 18d
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Cassette is awesome too, might have to order one just to celebrate the fact that I still own a tape deck.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 18d
This is the third post in a heron-swallowing thread, recommend the whole sequence.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 18d
Herons, man...
#birds #heron #birdsaredinosaurs #pantophagy
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Matthew Paulson @matthewpaulson.bsky.social · 18d
This Great Blue Heron took a bit to maneuver this large armored catfish into the right position to swallow it down. 🪶
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Spidermax @spidermax3000.bsky.social · 18d
It’s #toadallytuesday
American #toad - Anaxyrus americanus
(Shot near Cincinnati 9-16-25) 🐸 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #amphibian #frog
An American toad (Anaxyrus americanus) sitting among the leaves while facing a bit away from camera towards the right of frame. The frog is all bumpy and colored in muddy earth tones.
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 18d
Highly recommended!
#herp #reptile #snake #booksky
Image of cover of book "Slither" by Stephen S. Hall
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Jackson Frishman @jfrishman.bsky.social · 18d
Had to steal this one:
Venn diagram depicting Prometheus, Saruman and Jeff Bridges as the Big Lebowski. Overlapping Venn sections contain text reading "Severe liver damage," "Cunning technological firewielder deity," "Obessions with large heavy ball," and in the center "I hate the fuckin eagles, man."
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