Mountains are calling & I must go! Let’s wander where the Wi-Fi is weak & the trails are steep.
Adventure awaits!
Jason Roberts is a photographer who threw himself back into the art like a man escaping a burning building. No plan, no roadmap, just a camera and a hunger for something real. Oregon is his stomping ground: mountains that bleed into the sky, rivers that rage like drunk gods, and ghost towns crumbling under the weight of time. That’s where his lens points, not at the polished, the staged, or the safe, but at the raw nerve of the world.
Roberts walked away from photography once, swallowed by the static of daily life, but he came back swinging. The camera became his weapon and salvation, a way to wrestle order from chaos and bring back proof that the wild is still out there kicking. Every shot is a field report: lightning storms stitched over the Three Sisters, deer skulls strung up in hunting camps, forests whispering secrets in the dark.
Through Nerdy Viking Photography, Roberts keeps driving down back roads, chasing storms, and crawling into the forgotten corners of the Pacific Northwest. His work is part survival note, part love letter, part battle cry. A reminder that beauty isn’t gentle, it’s feral, and you have to step off the map to find it.
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Life Before Internet
Before the internet, life was a treasure hunt. You had to go out there, ask questions, and discover things for yourself. It was a time of mystery and boredom, but also of great creativity and personal growth. Read more
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Going back to basics and developing with Caffenol
Nikon FM with HP5 Plus, Black and White Print Film, 35 mm, ISO 400, 36 Exposures There is something deeply unwell and beautifully right about taking a Nikon FM into the field, loading it with film, and then dragging those fragile little ghosts back to life in a bucket of homemade alchemy that smells like… Read more
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Dangerous thing to ask.
Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind. Dangerous thing to ask. Genuinely, specifically, structurally dangerous — the kind of question that sounds innocent in the asking and detonates on impact, because the first thing that comes to mind in response to what are you thinking is not polite, not organized, not remotely… Read more
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Two Books, One Confession, and What It Says About the Particular Wiring Inside My Skull
What book could you read over and over again? If I had to choose a single book — the one book capable of surviving repeated contact with my nervous system without losing its structural integrity, the one that holds up under the kind of rereading that destroys lesser work by revealing the machinery underneath the… Read more
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The Man Who Hijacked My Trajectory: A Tribute to Mister Strauss and the Dangerous Business of Teaching Someone to See
Who was your most influential teacher? Why? Being a Grateful and Slightly Overdue Acknowledgment of the Person Most Responsible for the Particular Madness That Followed Every once in a while — rarely, without announcement, in circumstances you won’t recognize as significant until years after the fact — you encounter a teacher who doesn’t just teach… Read more
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Curious: A Diagnosis, A Warning, and a Completely Unapologetic Defense of the Dangerous Variety
What is one word that describes you? Being a Frank Assessment of the Engine Running Underneath All of This and Why It Has Never Once Pointed Toward the Sensible Option If I had to reduce the entire strange operation of my existence down to a single word — the kind of word that could sit… Read more
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