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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.
Megan Bartling and Natalie Scheller - Southern Oregon University Volleyball
This is how you block in volleyball.
Haley Fikso with the kill
It doesn’t always work out the way you planned.
SOU cheerleaders strike a pose
Another photo from Saturday’s football game in Ashland… The SOU cheer team hung in there through the heat and sun of the first half while the crowd sat comfortably in the shade. In the second half we were all in the shade. In fact, the clouds rolled in, and it seemed like we may get a thunder and lightening storm, although it never quite materialized.
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.
Southern Oregon University Raiders
Colin Amsler kicks off for SOU
Photos taken at Saturday’s football game in Ashland against Webber International University.
Sunset from Grizzly Peak looking north (East Medford and beyond)
Another photo today from my recent dusk hike on Grizzly Peak…
With the sun low in the sky the flowers, and even the ground, really lit up into some amazing colors.
Sarah Holgen goes for the kill
Classes begin at Southern Oregon University on Monday, but the fall sports are already well underway. Today’s photo is a scene from last night’s volleyball victory at the SOU McNeil Pavilion.
I tried out my new 80-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens and am happy with the results.
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.
AMS volleyball game
Been watching a lot of volleyball the past week…
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.