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The Lamb of God, In Flames, Sylosis show at the Medford Armory is less than two weeks away. Get your ticket at Musichead today (or Music Coop in Ashland) to save $5 and avoid a line on the day of the show.
Sylosis just released the above video for Fear the World.
This year’s campus theme at SOU is “Happiness”, and the Annual Stevenson Union Photo Contest is for photos dealing in some way with happiness. I can’t win the contest since I am faculty and not a student, but I thought it would be fun to enter anyway. I submitted four photos, and this was one of them. I’m looking forward to seeing the chosen photos on display early next year.
This is a pic of the Ashland High School varsity volleyball team this past season.
I mentioned on my other blog several weeks ago that I did some photography for a friend who is opening a catering business in Ashland. Maybe catering isn’t the right word. She is opening a bakery of sorts, but she is doing the baking out of her own home so bakery isn’t quite the correct way to put it either. Anyway, she is now open for business so if you live in or near Ashland and are in need of the best cake, muffins, cookies, scones, sticky buns, tarts, cheesecake, morning buns, or cupcakes you have ever had then check out Jolene’s Sweets.
Most of the participants in the Ashland Monster Dash were more concerned with having fun than winning the race
We had some wonderful weather while in San Francisco for three nights this past weekend. Highs were in the low 70s and the lows were higher than Ashland’s normal high temperatures for this time of year. There was lots of sun and very little wind too. Saturday night the fog did roll in though. I headed out to the Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District, which wasn’t far from our hotel on Lombard Street, to take this photo on that evening. For more of my pictures from San Francisco (on my other blog) click here.
It’s not everyday that you get the chance to stand on the roof of a two-story, Victorian Italianate house built in 1883 near downtown Ashland. When that opportunity affords itself on a day (near the end of autumn) when half the town is getting rained on and the other half is under a bright blue sky you count yourself lucky. Today’s photo is about a 300 degree panorama I photomerged together. For loads more details click on the above image. Depending on your browser you may want to click on it again for even more detail. See if you can find the Ashland Springs Hotel, Wagner Butte, the Historic Ashland Armory, and Grizzly Peak. If you look really closely you can also see Puck’s Donuts, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Modern Barber Shop, and the Ashland Wine Cellar.
Santa counts down with the town before flipping the switch to light one million lights from the balcony at Alex’s Restaurant.
For the next three days there is a college basketball tournament at SOU. Southern Oregon University men’s games are at 7:30 Friday and Saturday evenings. The women play at 3:30 on Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.
I took today’s photos with my new Nikon D600 at the OIT game this past Tuesday evening. I didn’t expect the D600 to function that much better than my D7000 in these conditions but it did. The focusing was faster and more accurate. I was also able to shoot in the ISO 2000-3200 range instead of the 800-1600 range so my shutter speed was faster than normal. I’m really pleased with the results.
I’m going to miss the Festival of Light tonight in Ashland as we are in San Francisco this weekend. Entertainment in downtown Ashland begins at 1 p.m. today. Santa’s Parade begins at the library at 5 p.m. Santa is going to turn on the lights from the balcony at Alex’s between 5:45 and 6 p.m. I’ll show you a photo from last year of that part of the festivities tomorrow.
Today’s photo is also from last year’s Festival of Light Parade.
SOPride Parade – Ashland, Oregon
Ashland’s Gay Pride Parade is a much smaller affair than its San Francisco and New York counterparts. Instead of Dykes on Bikes, we get just one to kick off the parade.