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Photo of the Year 2012

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Photo of the Year 2012 – Top 100

Three photos I submitted to the “Photo of the Year 2012” contest made the Top 100 and can now be voted on (until January 27, 2013). If you would be so kind I would appreciate your vote for my entries which can be found here, here, and here. You have to vote for 10 photos in total so pick another seven to go along with my three for your vote to count.

Table Rock Sunset

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Table Rock – Southern Oregon

A lovely hike, especially at sunset, Upper Table Rock, a bit north of Medford (nearer to White City and Central Point actually) was the location for today’s photo back in the summer of 2012.

Ashland from Dead Indian Memorial Road

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Ashland, Oregon with a storm brewing

After the snowshoeing adventure mentioned yesterday, I headed down Dead Indian Memorial Road into what looked like a pending storm. The storm fizzled.

The bump in the distant center is the backside of Pompadour Bluff. I’ll have to post a more close up version of Ashland side of Pompadour Bluff soon.

Buck Prairie Nordic Trails

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180 degree panorama of Buck Prairie Nordic Trail in the snow

I headed up Dead Indian Memorial Road to Buck Prairie yesterday. The clouds were thick, but for a few minutes on the trail, there was a bit of blue when I took today’s photo. This panorama is actually 9 vertical pictures stitched together into a horizontal landscape. I was trying out my new snowshoes, but most people out yesterday were on cross country skis as you can see from the tracks in the snow.

Starry Night

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Stars over Ashland

Snow wheel

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Lithia Park snow – Ashland, Oregon

Out with the old and in with the new

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Baby Ostriches at California Academy of Sciences – San Francisco

I didn’t have any photos of a Baby New Year, so this pic of the baby ostrich chicks we saw last month in San Francisco will have to do.

Happy New Year everyone!

Sun and snow can mix well

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We drove up to the White Rabbit trailhead parking lot a couple days ago to hike to the end of the Lamb Mine Cave off of Ashland Loop Road. There was lots of snow and I was wishing I had brought along my snow shoes that I received for Christmas. The sun came out at times and, with it, large quantities of snow fell from the trees making a lovely, winter landscape.

Summer in Ashland

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From the archives today… this one is from July of 2009. During the winter months I need images like these to get me through.

Another Ashland panorama

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Ashland, Oregon panorama

Last week the mountains around Ashland were dusted with snow. Some funky clouds rolled in, and then some blue sky poked through. I decided to head up to the roof to see how much of the detail I could capture.

I had my Nikkor 70-300mm lens on my Nikon D600. At 70mm I turned the camera vertical, and took a series of 8 photos at 1/800, f/10, ISO-200. I then photomerged them together for the above result. If you have a big screen, click on the image once or twice for the larger view. You can see lots of detail and landmarks on the biggest version including (from the left) Mountain Meadows, Grizzly Peak, and Pompadour Bluff.