@jfrishman
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
Did it again on my photo editing monitor, had the number down to 0.0020 for a while but ended up at 0.0031. Definitely felt like it was likely coming down to monitor hardware issues in the toughest ones.
0.0065. The purple ones were my downfall.
All the SNOTEL stations around there are above 7,000 feet, I think it's a problem all over the Northwest this year, SNOTEL skews higher, so the mid-low elevation snow drought isn't being adequately captured in the data.
...which makes perfect sense with how warm it's been. But there's a lot more land <6,000 than >6k, so if we had more low stations, they'd almost certainly be showing us a worse picture. All to say, it's not just intuition, there's definitely a case to be made that things are worse then SNOTEL shows.
Screen capture of SNOTEL data map for Salmon River basin in Idaho, showing an overall number of 85%, with a lot of stations towards the west marked in yellow orange or red, while ones towards the east are generally green and blue.
Yeah. When I look at, say, the Salmon drainage, I notice 1) there just aren't that many stations, it's not a real plentiful dataset; 2) the stations in better shape are to the SE, drier country, so their %average represents less water; and 3) the better numbers all skew high elev (cont)
Love that glimpse of Palmer! Also gonna shout out Bill Karls and of course Wesley.
Photo of rocky landscape with aspen trees in early morning light. A curving foreground dome of pale stone drops off towards a gully full of green spring aspen trees that traverses the entire image side to side. In a crack in the dome is growing a small juniper shrub lit by warm sunrise light. Beyond the gully is a sort of fan of stone formations, gracefully sculpted and yellow in the sun. At top, a glimpse of stony hills recedes to the top of the frame.
Photograph of a few lines of stone outcrops that look almost like skeletal toe bones, warm tan colored, with green spring aspen trees filling the gaps between.
#RockinTuesday some beautiful ashflow tuff laced with aspens, way out in the emptiness of the Great Basin
#landscapephotography #geology #greatbasin
Very nice!
Thanks for the complement! But limestone/marble plus whatever the heck the orange stuff in these roof pendants is. There are crinoid fossils in this stuff. In any case, it definitely ain't schissty.
Man, they are one strange animal! Great image!
Man, it's grim out there. Gonna try and get my recreation in early this year. Dreading August and September...
Gorgeous! I love the comp and the way you've captured the more scrappy side of aspens.
Almost hate to ask, but are all preorders equal? Like, do publishers take equal notice of preorders from Bookshop vs Amazon vs local stores?
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.
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.
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...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...
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...