I remembered to change the microphone to low sensitivity (under movie settings) on my Nikon D7000. That made the audio sound pretty good most of the time, but it still has a problem when a really heavy bass kicks in as you will hear (especially during the first song, My Burden, below) during parts of the following videos. I think I will purchase an external microphone and attenuator for next time to see if I can get better results.

I had to manually focus these videos as the lighting in the Rogue Theatre is really poor. Floater was pretty much playing in the dark.

Posted on November 20th, 2011 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: floater, music, video. Comments Off on More Floater

Floater @ Rogue Theatre in Grants Pass, Oregon

Posted on November 19th, 2011 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: floater, music, video. Comments Off on Floater played in Grants Pass last night

On May 11, 2012 Roger Waters will be performing The Wall Live in San Francisco in front of probably 60,000 people. I have seen Roger three times on his prior solo tours, and they are not to be missed. In fact, I saw him on this very tour in 2010 in San Jose. However, I was close to the stage for that one and now need to take in this show again from a different perspective. My view will be the one pictured above. Imagine The Wall being built in shallow center field, and you’ll be getting the picture.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow (11/18/11), but I bought mine during the presale.

Posted on November 17th, 2011 under outside of ashland. Tags: california, roger waters, san francisco. Comments Off on Roger Waters – The Wall Live – AT&T Park – San Francisco

A little girl checks out the pumpkins at Portland, Oregon's Farmer's Market

I took today’s photo this past Saturday morning while we were visiting Portland.

Posted on October 31st, 2011 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: halloween, portland. Comments Off on Happy Halloween!

Paulina Plunge Tour Waterfall

Today’s photo is of the first waterfall we encountered on the Paulina Plunge Tour near Bend in August. It was the only waterfall we didn’t jump in.

Posted on October 12th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: bend, paulina plunge, waterfall. Comments Off on Paulina Plunge Waterfall

Grapes on the vine at Eden Valley Orchards - Medford, Oregon

The Rogue Valley has historically been known as a Mecca for pears. With global warming it may become the Napa Valley of the 21st (or 22nd?) Century. The number of wineries has grown substantially in the past couple decades.

A couple days ago I was at a conference at Eden Valley Orchards, also home to the EdenVale Winery, and the ripe grapes looked about ready for picking.

Posted on September 30th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: medford. Comments Off on Eden Valley Orchards

Mt. Thielsen from Highway 138

Not far from Crater Lake, but even closer to Diamond Lake, is the unusual Mt. Thielsen in Southern Oregon. The volcano that created the mountain has been extinct for a quarter of a million years and glaciers did a number on the rock, leaving this strange-looking shape.

I took today’s photo on our way to Bend last month.

Posted on September 27th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: flowers, mount thielsen, mountains. Comments: 1

I took the above photo immediately after the band was flashed, hence the expressions on their faces.

The end of this concert was strange, to say the least. The crowd became unruly so the stage was lined with security. The band wasn’t even visible much of the time thanks to the security blocking the view. Then, at 5 minutes to 10 p.m. (Roseburg’s curfew is 10) the sound was completely cut off as you can see in the video below.

A guy from The Zoo got up on stage and apologized for Roseburg’s laws, wasting the final 5 minutes Floater could have been legally playing. Everyone booed and began to leave. Then, at 5 minutes AFTER 10, they announced that Floater would come back on stage. Floater did get back on the stage to play the last half of “An Apology,” a fitting and ironic song title given the crap that Floater had to go through with the idiots in the crowd and the poor management of the venue/sound by The Zoo.

Posted on September 23rd, 2011 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: floater. Comments Off on Floater in Roseburg (part 3 of 3)

Peter Cornett - Floater drummer

I barely got Pete into yesterday’s photos so today he gets to take up an entire pic.

Floater @ The Zoo (Roseburg, Oregon)

Floater at The Zoo was a rather strange experience for many reasons. The stage is only a foot or so off the ground. That coupled with girls on shoulders and security trying to keep people off the stage meant you couldn’t always see much of the band.

The sound was also messed up. The band couldn’t hear themselves as the stage monitors didn’t work. Sometimes the mix was bad or instruments couldn’t be heard in the audience either.

I did finally figure out how to get decent audio on my D7000 (Low instead of Auto setting for video audio). However, the lighting was so poor (the audience was better lit than the band) that I couldn’t get the autofocus to work for video so after a minute or so in the following video I shifted to manual focus which worked much better.

Posted on September 21st, 2011 under outside of ashland. Tags: floater, video. Comments Off on Floater video