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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.
https://frishmanphoto.wordpress.com/
https://www.frishmanphoto.com/
#photography #washingtonstate #landscape
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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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The collection
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Collage of images for an abstract nature photography calendar
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 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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Grass, wind and space under chilly November sky
#landscapephotography #easternwashington #okanogan #inlandnorthwest
Landscape photo of mostly barren hills covered in dry grass. In a swale in the hills is a line of bare trees, with one spot of autumn yellow still visible. In the distance, wooded mountains appear dark and small under a metallic cloudy sky.
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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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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Here's a view of my piece from the fall issue about the oldest rocks in Idaho:
Image of article in a glossy color magazine. Headline reads "Idaho Gems - Geology, from the depths of time." Images show an alpine basin at sunset and closeups of rock outcrops.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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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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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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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
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Rosy #evening sea, Channel Islands, California
#BlueSkyArtShow #channelislands #coastalcalifornia
Photograph of calm island sea at sunset. At left are dark island cliffs and sea stacks, with another island further in the distance. The clouds overhead are colored a soft rosy orange with sunset, and that light is reflected on the wide expanse of calm sea. In the far distance, the color of clouds and sea transitions to blue.
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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#Autumn dance of decay and rebirth, light fading and rain returning.
#BlueSkyArtShow #forestfloor #idahopanhandle #idaho #cabinetmountains #fungi
Photograph of autumn forest floor. The frame is dominated by two deciduous leaves, one yellow at bottom right, the other brown at upper left. They are surrounded by tiny green leaves of plants and moss, twigs and orange cedar fronds, with a number of tiny white mushrooms sprouting in the midst of everything.
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Wolf eel skeleton on display at Monterey Bay Aquarium: happy Halloween!
Photo of wolf eel skeleton with jaws open and teeth on display. The skeleton appears orange on a black background.
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Happy Halloween from the vengeful salmon of the Clearwater River!
#idaho #salmon
Photo of the rotted head of a salmon on a riverside cobble bar. The stones are mostly blue-gray with a granite and a schist cobble identifiable. The fish head resembles another cobble, but is slightly yellow, has exposed bones at the back, hollow eye sockets and a grin full of sharp teeth.
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Subtle stormy sunrise yesterday morning
#inlandnorthwest #palouse #easternwashington #landscapephotography
Photo of hilly landscape under a cloudy, misty sky. Hills of faded yellow and green wheat stubble fill the foreground, while a line of larger, darker summits lies beyond, with fog banks playing on their tops. The sky above is fully clouded with a color mix of stormy blue, pale gray and very subtle hints of rose.
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Canyon filling with fog
#landscapephotography #inlandnorthwest #larch #fog #autumn
Photograph of heavy fog spreading through a wooded canyon. The pale gray fog bank dominates the center and upper right of the image. At bottom in the foreground is a stand of conifer trees, including several larches starting to turn their autumn yellow. At upper left silhouettes of cliffs and trees can be made out through the mist.
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Happiness...
A tabby cat sprawled decadently in a warm sunbeam on an Afghan rug
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Some autumnal mood
#landscapephotography #autumn #easternwashington #inlandnorthwest #ponderosa #fog
Photograph of a ponderosa pine growing from a rock outcrop on a rainy morning. The rock outcrop is mostly covered in orange ponderosa needles. The main tree's top is not visible, but the scene is dominated by its vertical trunk and an elegant implied curve formed by its lower branches, somewhat resembling the f-hole on a cello. In the background in a valley wooded with conifers and shrouded in approaching mist.
October 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Last year, a glorious still and colorful sunrise in Montana. 4/4
#montana #reflection #symmetry #lake
Photograph of early sunrise reflected in a still lake. The far shore of the lake is forested with conifers. Blue clouds showing just a hint of purple and their reflections form an oval frame around woods and lake. The sky behind the clouds is glowing with pre-dawn color of blue and purple grading into subtle orange, colors which are reflected richly in the calm water.
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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~5 years ago, I saw my first good autumn larches in the north Idaho inland rainforest. 3/4
#inlandnorthwest #larch #idaho #northidaho
Vertical photograph of autumn forest above a small stream. The evergreens are liberally seasoned with golden autumn larch trees, and the little stream in the foreground is lined with yellow foliage.
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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~10 years ago, on a high ridge east of the Sierra Nevada. 2/4
#greatbasin #californiadesert #inyocounty
Photograph of sunrise on the crest of a mountain range. A yellow autumn shrub is in the foreground, beyond which bare slopes lead to a forested canyon in high desert summits. Across a distant deep valley is a line of large peaks capped with snow. The sky is clear blue and orange sunrise light is touching the higher summits, while most of the scene is shaded.
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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In an effort to raise my own enthusiasm for my own photography, a retrospective: what I was shooting approx 15, 10, 5 and 1 years ago. 15ya was a very good autumn and this remains a favorite. New Mexico has better fall colors than most people would guess. 1/4
#landscapephotography #newmexico
Veritcal landscape photo of forested autumn hillside. Some evergreens are interspersed with golden aspens and red-orange maples. A gray limestone cliff band cuts diagonally across the top of the scene.
October 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Forest detail, northeast Washington
#landscapephotograph #inlandnorthwest #easternwashington #autumn #larch
Vertical photograph of forested hillside with autumn colors. Jade green evergreens dominate the scene, but between them one can see red and orange underbrush on the hillside, as well as three larch trees beginning their fall color, with two on the right appearing lime green and the third more prominent in pale yellow.
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM