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180° from the Ashland Street Overpass
Ashland has had some fantastic skies the past few days. I’m hoping these kind of skies and clouds follow me to Yosemite where I will be spending much of my spring break next week.
It may not look it from this panorama, but I nearly froze to death taking these eight photos (which were photomerged into one in CS6 later). These clouds were moving through quickly, the wind was howling, and the temperature was probably below freezing with the wind chill factor. I didn’t stick around for long to enjoy the view.
Exmortus @ Club 66
In the photo above, Conan and David Rivera flipped their guitars on to their backs and proceeded to play the other guy’s guitar.
Below is their performance of “Kneel Before the Steel” from their 2011 album “Beyond The Fall Of Time”.
Witchaven, Exmortus, and Witch Cult tonight @ Club 66
Witch Cult @ Club 66
Ashland, Oregon
Tonight’s show begins promptly at 7 p.m. All ages for the Witch Cult set. 21+ for Exmortus and Witchaven.
Betty Boop
Depth of field at f/1.2
The other day I was in Medford for work. On my way I met someone via Craigslist who was selling a couple of manual Nikon lenses. Having never used a manual lens before (although I have used my AF lenses in manual mode on occasion) I was interested to try them out. Plus the price was crazy cheap so even if I didn’t like them I figured I could unload them at a profit.
Most of my lenses are largest at f/2.8. My Sigma 85mm goes to f/1.4 though. This 50mm lens that I picked up has a maximum aperture of f/1.2. It may be the only Nikon lens with an aperture so large. I had a half hour to kill so I dropped into the Medford library to try it out. The above was my first shot. What do you think?
I used it at the Stoneburner show too. My keeper rate at f/1.2 with manual focusing went down of course, but the ones that came out OK are pretty cool.
More Stoneburner (PDX) pics
Stoneburner will be playing Club 66 in Ashland on May 30, 2013.
Today’s pics are from their show on March 16 at Johnny B’s.
Stoneburner @ Johnny B’s
I have never seen a crowd at Johnny B’s anywhere near as large as last night’s Stoneburner gig. Hopefully, they play Club 66 next time so that more people can actually see them.
They played a couple of new tunes to kick things off and the new songs are incredible. I’m really looking forward to their next release.
More photos from yesterday’s Southern Oregon University softball victory
One of my reasons for shooting yesterday’s softball game was to see if I could get away with taking only my Nikon 70-300mm VR to Japan and Korea this summer where I plan to attend several professional baseball games. My other option is to take my 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.7X teleconverter. The problem is those two combined weigh more than twice as much as my 70-300mm and they take up more space in my luggage.
The 70-300mm passed the test in sunny conditions. Unfortunately, most of the games I will go to in Korea and Japan will probably be at night and/or indoors. I’m still leaning towards the 70-300mm though.
Irene Barrantes – SOU softball
Karlie Stephens gives up just 1 earned run in 7 innings…
Karlie Stephens
… en route to a game one victory over Northwest Christian University yesterday. The Raiders went on to win both games of the doubleheader to improve their record to 5-1 in the conference. Today SOU faces Concordia in another doubleheader. The first game begins at 11 a.m. in Ashland.