Lithia Park’s Upper Duck Pond
Cherry blossoms in Ashland on the last day of March
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Snowy sunset
Sunset looking away from Crater Lake
Thursday I headed to Crater Lake, and surrounding areas, with two goals. I failed to reach either goal.
My first goal was to snowshoe to Muir Creek Falls from the Claude Lewis Trailhead parking lot. Didn’t quite happen. More on that later.
My second goal was to capture a sunset, for the first time, at Crater Lake. Today’s photo is as close as I got. Those clouds on the right covered the lake and turned into thick fog as well just minutes after I took this photo. I had high hopes too, as Crater Lake looked like this less than an hour before sundown.
Snow kissed panorama
7-photo photomerge panorama of Ashland, Oregon
Before heading down the hill to work last Monday morning I climbed out a window and up to the top of my roof to capture this image.
For the details, click on the image a time or two.
Top photos of the year
According to Flickr “favorites” these were my top photos of 2015 (not sports related) from Southern Oregon:
The top two photos were taken on the same day.
Tomorrow I’ll post my top sports-related photos from Southern Oregon.
RAW vs jpg in outdoor sports photography
unedited jpg
Until last year I only shot in RAW for difficult lighting conditions. Now I only shoot in RAW, even for outdoor sports. Yesterday I was on the road, without a computer, so I shot in both RAW and jpg. I sent some jpgs in for quick publication, and they showed up in places like here and here.
Back on my computer today I had the chance to process the same RAW files.
edited RAW version of Clayton Nadon’s pass
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edited RAW version of Brendan Allen’s goal celebration
Shari’s in Springfield
Shari’s menu cover in Springfield, Oregon
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Next time you are at Shari’s in Springfield, Oregon check out their menu cover photos. If one of them looks familiar it’s because you saw it here first.
Upper Rogue River in winter
Yesterday we went in search of Boundary Springs. We couldn’t find the trailhead (or maybe we did and just didn’t know it). In any event, we parked at the Mazama Viewpoint off Highway 230 as we could see no other place to park near the Mile 19 marker, which is where we read the trail is supposed to start. The sign at Mazama Viewpoint said Upper Rogue River Trail (I think). There was no internet from there, but my GPS worked fine. It looked like we could still do the Boundary Springs Trail if we could find it.
Even though there should have been tons of snow in the area, the snow was fairly minimal–especially for this time of year–so we didn’t bother to put our snowshoes on. We ended up walking on the trail for several miles before realizing we were no longer going toward Boundary Springs. At that point we turned around, walked back to our car, drove to Crater Lake, and snowshoed there.
I want to try the Boundary Springs Trail again. I saw this sign, but couldn’t read it. Apparently this is where we should have turned to get to Boundary Springs.
2014 SOU football photo book now being sold
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The books I previously mentioned are now available for purchase here.
In addition to the description I gave on the above link, there are a couple other things you may want to know. First, all players on the 2014 SOU football team are in the book at least twice. Most players are in the book at least three times. The coaching staff is pictured at least twice as well, including a photo of the coaches with Grizzly Peak in the background which hasn’t been seen before.
A few people have asked about the differences between the two versions. The page quality is the same. The main difference is one is hardcover and the other is a softcover. The ten additional photos in the hardcover include a Keegan Lawrence run (with some of the linemen) against Carroll, a defensive stop in Chicago featuring Julius Rucker, Jaylenn Hart, Alex Stork, and Heston Altenbach. a post-game celebration leap by Melvin Mason in Chicago, the team at a high school in Florida, Laurence Calcagno and Heston Altenbach kissing the trophy, a Heston Altenbach and Daniel Breaux tackle against MidAmerica Nazarene University, Sean Tow lunging for the goal line, an Austin Dodge pass against the Montana Western Bulldogs, most of the team on the field with Coach Howard after the semifinal win, and Sean McShane flying across the Ashland High School field early in the season.
There are also some blank, white pages at the front and end of (both versions of) the book that can be used for autographs or to attach a roster.
2014 NAIA National Football Champions photo book
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Piles of coffee table books documenting the 2014 SOU football team’s season arrived in the mail today. I decided to go captionless with the format rather than have words clutter up the pages. The only words are on the front and rear covers.
There are two versions of this book. The regular version is 33 full-color pages in length (plus front and rear cover photos) and includes about 40 different photos, most photos being in a large 8″ x 11″ format. Some of the photos have not been published anywhere before (or even been seen by anyone but me). Others are favorites that have been well received on the internet already (but many people haven’t seen them on anything other than their phones). These photos look much better in large print on high quality paper than on a small smart phone screen. The photos come from seven of the games during the Raiders 13-2 championship season and a few are from other events (like the parade in Ashland and activities in Daytona Beach).
The deluxe version is 43 full-color pages in length plus the front and rear covers. The deluxe version is a hard cover book which includes all of the photos from the regular version plus 10 more.
All profits from the sale of these books will go toward the SOU football program. Championship t-shirts are available through the link here.
P.S. Lots of you are emailing me asking to reserve books for you. I’m not selling the books. SOU is selling the books. Details here. Note that the regular version has sold out. There are a few deluxe versions left (as many more of them were ordered).
6 days to Daytona
Southern Oregon University football
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Fun fact #3: Win, lose, or draw in Daytona, no NAIA team will finish the 2014 football season with more wins than the Raiders. 12 wins is not only a record for the Raiders, it is also more wins than any team in the NAIA has achieved this year. Let’s make it lucky number 13 for good measure.
P.S. Today’s photo, and these photos, were taken with the Tamron 150-600mm lens–a lens mostly marketed to, and used by, wildlife photographers. I found it to work rather well on the “wild life” found on a football field.