Before the evening plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival there has been a long tradition of a free Green Show. Today’s picture is from the Green Show a couple nights back.
Until last year, a group of dancers performed in front of live music nightly. Beginning last year the dancers are gone and every night is something different. The dancers were consistently good. Now you never know what you will get. Sometimes great, sometimes good, sometimes not so good. The starting time for the OSF Green Show is 7:15 after Memorial Day until mid-August. From mid-August until early October the Green Show starts at 6:45. If you want a good seat you should arrive at least 20 minutes early.
Here is a schedule of this year’s OSF Green Show performances.
For Father’s Day we rode bikes from Lake of the Woods to Fish Lake. The weather wasn’t great and the kids weren’t up for all 15+ miles so I rode back from Fish Lake to Lake of the Woods by myself to get the car. Near the car was this scene. This is actually across the rode (near Aspen Point) from Lake of the Woods. It isn’t a year-round lake at all I imagine–just a swamp of sorts that happened to look pretty good on this day.
I was playing around with the modes on my LX3 on my bike ride the other day around Lithia Park. By flipping the switch to SCN and then choosing “Hi Speed Burst” I was able to take six pictures per second. You lose a lot of quality in so doing, but the pictures aren’t bad if you are in good lighting and close to your target. In this series I wasn’t close enough.
Check out the fun you can have with putting these pictures together backwards with a program like Windows Movie Maker.
This is the fourth time I’ve shown you Mt. McLaughlin, each time from a very different angle. I think I like this one the best due to my love of clouds.
A few weeks ago, on my way home, I notice what looked like a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion in the southeast portion of the sky. It wasn’t quite as pronounced by the time I got home and took this picture, but it still looked a bit out of the ordinary.
In less than two months I will be moving to Tokyo for a year. I don’t want this blog to dry up and die while I’m gone. While the updates may not be quite daily while I’m away I’m hoping that with a hundred or so images from my archives and a little help from some of you who live in the Rogue Valley we can keep things interesting and fresh around here. I may even have a Tokyo week on Ashland Daily Photo from time to time while I’m in Japan.
Today’s image is the first photo from a guest contributor. This picture is of Medford, taken from the RoxyAnn Winery, and was provided courtesy of a former student of mine, Amanda Bullock.
If you have some high quality images of Ashland, or the Rogue Valley, and would like to see them published here drop me a line.
Here is another Floater picture for you. And below is an HD video I took on my LX3 at the show. I forgot to follow my own advice and zoom before starting the video, but given my state of mind at the time it’s amazing that I remembered to take any pictures or a video. 😉
The above video is Floater performing “Ghost in the Making” off of their Stone by Stone CD. This live performance at the Rogue Theatre in Grants Pass, Oregon on May 29, 2009 features an extended jam beginning at about minute 5 in this video.
Today’s picture was taken from the highway, window rolled down, going 65 MPH. The snow on Mt. Ashland is mostly gone now in mid-June, but there was still quite a bit when I took this on May 19. The Ashland Springs Hotel is the most visible and recognizable building. My house is among the trees beyond the hotel. A great place to live…
As always, maximize your browser and then click on the image for a much better and bigger view.
I still haven’t figured out how to use WordPress’s gallery feature very well. I was hoping that when you clicked on one of the above images you’d get a large image and be able to navigate to the next picture. You can’t, unfortunately. You can get a large image if you click the picture and then click it again on the next page though.
After attending eight straight SOU graduations, I’m going to miss next year’s commencement since I will be out of the country. I think already missing next year caused me to take more pictures than normal this year. 😉
Pictures from Southern Oregon University’s 2008 graduation ceremony can be seen here.
