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It has been a while since I have included someone else’s photos on the blog. Today’s pic is from David Pasillas, a soon-to-be member of the Ashland community. You can see more of David’s photography on his Facebook page.
Ashland's Lithia Park in the snow
We finally have a bit of precipitation going on this week. Today’s photo is from my Sunday morning walk through Lithia Park while it was snowing a couple days ago.
Today’s photo is from fall of 2010, and the location for this picture was the swimming reservoir in Lithia Park.
I spotted this 100+ year old pamphlet in the Ashland Artisan Emporium, a rather interesting place of business in the Ashland Shopping Center (where DJ’s Video used to be).
A much larger, and cleaned-up, version of the photo on this brochure can be seen in Larks. I don’t think there is an Upper Falls in Ashland Creek anymore. (Correct me if I’m wrong.) Is this where the reservoir is now?
Lithia Park's Japanese Garden - May 2011
Winter is my least favorite time of year in Ashland. Grizzly Peak has turned brown, flowers are gone, only the pines retain any green, and the temperature is too cold to spend much time outside anyway. Sure it can be pretty at times, when fog creeps through the valley floor or when we get a fresh dusting of snow, but the six months it will take to get to scenes like that above seem to crawl by awfully slowly.
Are you sick of the fall foliage yet? Me neither. I took today’s photo earlier this week in the morning before the crowds gathered in Lithia Park to enjoy these trees in their splendor.
The last time I showed you this scene was from right down by the water’s edge in a vertical shot. This landscape-orientation photo I took from the road that runs through Lithia Park.
From the same spot as this location, I pointed my camera in the other direction to capture the above view of Ashland Creek in Lithia Park.
I think I have finally nailed this shot of Ashland Creek which I’ve taken several times before but never to my entire satisfaction. The key ingredients are:
1) right season (late spring or early summer–more green and more water)
2) tripod
3) right day and time (sunny day in the early morning before the sun is really out)
4) no wind (if the branches or leaves are blowing in the breeze then the “pop” doesn’t pop)
Equipment and EXIF data:
Nikon D7000
Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR II lens
$20 tripod
f/22
1 second exposure
ISO 280
18mm focal length
Outside Magazine is currently running a contest in which people can vote for the “Best Town Ever”. Of course, there is nothing scientific about the poll, and it’s merely just a ploy to get people to “like” Outside Magazine on Facebook, but Ashland is currently running second behind Tucson, Arizona. Really? Tucson? Can a city of over half a million people in the city limits with another half a million in the suburbs really be called a “town”, let alone be the “Best Town Ever”?
Anyway, today’s photo is from a real town. This is Ashland Creek which runs through this town, which will soon have less than 20,000 people once the SOU students split this weekend.