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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Writing Prompt 2/8
What do you complain about the most? What do you complain about the most? A catastrophic shortage of history and common sense. Not a mild shortage. Not a seasonal dip. A full-blown famine. The intellectual equivalent of an empty grocery store with the lights still on and a sign in the window insisting everything is… Read more
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The Camera
The most important invention in your lifetime is… The most important invention in your lifetime is… The camera. Not the internet. Not smartphones. Not whatever glowing rectangle is currently demanding our attention like a needy landlord. The camera—film first, digital later—the machine that taught me how to see instead of just look. Before the camera,… Read more
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Writing Prompt: Perspective on life?
How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? Good lord—how does anyone answer that without pouring a stiff drink and staring at the wall for a while? If I’m being honest—and that’s the… Read more
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New Trip: The Grotto
February is shaping up to be a strange detour—one of those necessary wrong turns that somehow ends up telling you more than the main road ever could. The plan is The Grotto, Mount Angel Abbey, Portland streets, old stones and older intentions. Churches, city corners, historic shadows. A sharp left turn from our usual communion… Read more
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Writing Prompt: Write about your first computer.
Write about your first computer. The first computer I ever knew wasn’t sleek or friendly or pretending to be helpful. It didn’t invite you in. It challenged you to prove you deserved to touch it. We had a typewriter first. A real one. Heavy. Mechanical. Mean. You didn’t “edit” on that thing—you committed. Every mistake… Read more
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Insomnia has a certain honesty to it
Thank Odin for journals and half-finished books—the only sane refuge when the clock slips past decency and the brain decides it’s time to light every fuse at once. Those early hours are dangerous territory. The world goes quiet, but your thoughts come in loud and unfiltered, pacing the room like caged animals. Writing is the… Read more
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