Jon Friesen Fine Art Photography

07/25/2025

Big Sky 189
Milky Way over Monument Rocks Chalk Pyramids
Composite Image (22 photographs)

Recipe for healing the soul.
1. Find dark sky
2. Look up
3. Breathe
4. Listen
5. Repeat

It has been too long since I've done this. I need to fix that.

Thankful.

PS: If you need this on your wall at home, we should talk. It can be done.

07/13/2025

Anointing Light

What if,
as the sun breeches the horizon of this
angry and fear filled land
tempered so little by night,
Is it more than I think it to be?

That the
illumination of this place and its people
is in truth an anointing with light;
a sacred and new beginning.

And this anointing,
which I thought only to be
the cycling of sun, moon, and stars,
is instead a consecrated threshold
inviting me to awaken anew.

Through which,
stepping in to the conversation to conceive anew,
I am again given opportunity
to recognize the bonds of our human connectedness?

Might this sacred, morning cycle
be the ritual where I am once more
reminded that each of us
is a broken, yet loved
reflection of the image of God?

11/09/2024

Montana Sky – 8346

I think Kansas can have some big skies. Montana skies truly do define what “Big Sky Country” means. There’s a reason this is their tagline. This picture was taken east of Aberdeen…

11/08/2024

Early morning light is great light for photography. The addition of round bales is just an additional gift. I like the play of light and shadow on the field, the bales, the furrows, and the irrigation tracks. The fields of this prairie require time, patience, intention, and the discipline to return often in order to understand the seasonal and annual flows of arable land....

Early morning light is great light for photography. The addition of round bales is just an additional gift. I like the play of light and shadow on the field, the bales, the furrows, and the irrigat…

02/11/2022

Bison and Elk grazing on the prairie at Maxwell State Lake (McPherson County, Kansas) Just the usual crowd . . . in Kansas . . .

Bison and Elk grazing on the prairie at Maxwell State Lake (McPherson County, Kansas) Just the usual crowd . . . in Kansas . . .

01/11/2022

Aspen Under Clouds

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01/01/2022

The hike in to Church Rock Canyon begins at a wide mouth and narrows as you progress towards Church Rock. The red Aztec sandstone walls are mostly free of vegetation, but every now and then, a tree clings to the canyon walls. The word "resilience" always comes to mind and I wonder what the slick canyon walls are in my life; and am I showing the same resilience needed for growth. Gallup, NM 2021

The hike in to Church Rock Canyon begins at a wide mouth and narrows as you progress towards Church Rock. The red Aztec sandstone walls are mostly free of vegetation, but every now and then, a tree…

12/27/2021

Finding light in the San Luis Valley on the back side of a Colorado mountain thunderstorm....

Finding light in the San Luis Valley on the back side of a Colorado mountain thunderstorm.

02/11/2021

Juried show at the Midwest Center for Photography in Wichita. You can view submission by clicking on the link, or by attending the gallery when open.

Madison Barton, Huntersville, NC; Bruce Berkow, New York, NY; Alfons Cabrera, Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain; Marilyn Crocker, Evanston, IL;  Dallas Crow, St. Paul, MN; Jason Dailey, Lawrence, KS; Jim Davis, Fairfield, IA; John Diephouse, Lansing, MI; Amira Djafi, Lewis Center, OH; Michael Elenko, Va...

12/22/2020

A wonderful evening spent on the Tallgrass Prairie absorbing the beauty of the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction. I love the prairie in all seasons. There is something about the winter prairie at night. Weathering the cold, absorbing the stillness, and watching the night sky come to life. All good things.

10/12/2019

Prairie Gift - 6364

08/25/2019