It’s been a challenging spring for me to find time to get out and photograph, but I managed a quick trip yesterday evening to some new-to-me views of the Potlatch River Canyon in Idaho in prime spring condition. It’s getting quite nice out there, though we could really use some rain at this point.
Born in New Mexico, raised in Wyoming and Montana, the mountain west has always been my home. I come from mountaineering families on both sides: my maternal grandfather was a pioneering climber in the Sierra Nevada, while my father guided in the Tetons and climbed in China and Nepal. Both my parents guided for Outward Bound. I ran my first river at nine months old, and have been hiking and backpacking longer than I can remember. My other major influence has been my step-father, Stephen Bodio, a nature writer, falconer and traveler, and as fine a family member as I could hope to have.
I studied black and white photography in high school, under an excellent teacher, but failed to apply myself. After high school, I began guiding for ARTA River Trips, and my interest in photography gradually rekindled as I endeavored to share with friends and family my work in the finest landscapes of the American West. Meanwhile, I studied classical literature, philosophy and history of mathematics at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am currently living with my wife and son in the Palouse region of eastern Washington.
Photographically, I travel light and prefer to shoot off pavement and explore unknown locations. My favorite landscapes include the unknown expanses and little-visited mountains of rural New Mexico, the canyons of Dinosaur National Monument, and the vast wilderness of Central Idaho.
Contact: frishmanphoto@gmail.com
Crest, Cliff & Canyon
Happy to hear you got out to aerate the brain but ugh, sorry to hear that you’re experiencing lack of rain too…
Well, it’s nothing like the dry of the southwest right now, not even remotely. But Washington has been breaking records for lack of rain over the last month or so.