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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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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Fear and Loathing on the Howard Creek Trail
Being a True and Accurate Account of Two Photographers, One Questionable Decision, and a Forest That Had Opinions About Both March in Oregon doesn’t arrive the way the brochures promise. There are no brochures honest enough for what March actually does in this state. It doesn’t come in gently with soft light and cooperative blossoms… Read more
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Memorandum to the 100-Year-Old Wreckage
The remarkable journey of living to 100 years, outliving bad advice and surviving life’s unpredictable challenges. Embrace the present as each moment is a fleeting act in history’s grand comedy. Read more
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Fate, Free Will, and the Cosmic Bureaucracy That Runs Neither
Life is a chaotic Jenga tower of unplanned decisions, where every small choice can lead to unforeseen and often spectacular outcomes. Take my wife, for instance—one chance meeting that altered my entire trajectory. Fate, as a neat blueprint, fails to capture the brilliance of life’s unplanned chaos. Read more
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The Smell of Failure and Other Educational Experiences
Failure doesn’t have patience. It grabs you by the collar and forces you to look harder at what you’ve been avoiding. What actually matters here? What are you really chasing? It’s not a gentle curriculum, but failure strips away illusions faster than success can match. Read more
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