@SOURaiders @SOU_Football

The SOU Athletic Department has seats available on the charter flight to Kansas for Saturday’s NAIA quarterfinal football playoff game between SOU and Baker University.

The flight will leave from Medford/Rogue Valley International Airport at 4:30 a.m. on Friday (11/27/15) and return late Saturday night.

Minimum donation is $500 per seat for the flight. If you would like to donate and not go on the trip, please email Bobby Heiken directly (heikenb@sou.edu).

If you are interested in donating the MINIMUM $500 per seat for the flight, you MUST fill out the form at the following link …

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/174P7duXhSc04AszmIiaMbGcQkbkqNS9rSesWYboic4E/viewform?usp=send_form

You also have to be signed up by NOON ON WEDNESDAY.

Because of the holiday season and schedules, please no calls to the Athletic Department, as they won’t be answered. If you have questions please shoot Bobby an email.

If you are traveling with the team, please book a room at the Crowne Plaza in Lenexa, Kansas (913-217-1000).

SOU will provide transportation from the airport to the hotel on Friday and from the hotel, to the game, to the postgame meal and to the airport on Saturday. Except for the postgame meal, all meals are on your own, as well as transportation around the area.

Posted on November 24th, 2015 under outside of ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics. Comments Off on Seats available on football charter flight from Medford to Kansas

SOU in autumn

@SOUAshland @SOUGrounds @SOUadmissions

Those SOU landscaping people are so on top of the leaf “problem” on campus during the week that in order to get a photo like this, you need to wait until Sunday. Early on Monday works too.

Posted on November 18th, 2015 under only in ashland, places. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, autumn, campus, leaves, Nikon D750, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University in November

Ashland, Oregon

A bit wider view of a prior entry.

Posted on November 14th, 2015 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, autumn, Nikon D750. Comments Off on Autumn in Ashland

Ellie Case putting down one of her 46 kills during the 2015 OSAA 5A Volleyball State Championship at Liberty High School in Hillsboro, Oregon

@VolleyballGrizz

First Team
Claire Hoffman, 10, Marist Catholic
Kalina Rivera, 12, La Salle Prep
Haley Smith, 10, Summit
Lauren Christie, 10, Lebanon
Tatiana Ensz, 11, Bend
Anna Houser, 12, Marist Catholic

Second Team
Ellie Case, 12, Ashland
Emmerson Smith, 11, La Salle Prep
Kaci Cox, 10, Bend
Rachel Berger, 12, La Salle Prep
Isabella Rainaldi, 12, Summit
Sophie Griese, 11, La Salle Prep

Posted on November 8th, 2015 under people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, ashland high school, ellie, Nikon D750, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on 2015 OSAA 5A Volleyball State Championships All‐Tournament Teams

2015 Ashland High School volleyball seniors Liv Rooney, Ellie Case, and Payton Onesti

@VolleyballGrizz

Yesterday’s results were the best for the Grizzlies since the 2009 team took 3rd in Oregon. Ashland was the victim of the toughest matchup schedule of any team at the tournament. OSAA doesn’t adjust the brackets round by round, even after the first round (in which almost an entire week passes), so that the lowest seeded team plays the top seed, etc. Therefore, Ashland had to face the #2 seed and the #1 seed in their only two losses of the tournament. On the other hand, La Salle Prep (who won the same number of matches as Ashland during the year), came in second in the tournament by beating the #13 and #9 seeded teams before losing to #3-seeded Summit in the finals.

I know traditions are hard to break, but why not have each of the top teams play each of the other top teams over the two days? Seems much more fair to determine the final placements than the current system. All the teams are there sitting around waiting to play anyway.

Posted on November 8th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, ashland high school, ellie, Nikon D750, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland High School volleyball takes 6th in state

skeleton flamingos for Halloween

Unlike last year’s ghost and witch dress ups, this year’s flamingos decided to dress down for the occasion.

Posted on October 27th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, halloween, Nikon D750, pink flamingos lawn ornaments. Comments Off on Dead flamingos

@SOURaiders @RaiderVB @TyanaAndrews @LMcGowne

Time to begin another 15-match winning streak.

Higher resolution:

Tyana Andrews

Posted on October 9th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball gameday

Table Rock City Series Performer Ol’ Mount’n Due on August 18, 2015 in the Britt Performance Garden

@Ol_Mountn_Due @brittfestivals

Last night’s sold out show featuring Trampled By Turtles and The Devil Makes Three at Britt Festival was started off with Ol’ Mount’n Due, a (great!) band that has added an upright bass player since the last time I saw them. Will Shapiro also plays the drums in The Delineators.

Tickets are still available for tonight’s show featuring Sean Watkins & Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, Fiona Apple, Don Heffington, and Sebastian Steinberg.

Posted on August 19th, 2015 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, britt festivals, concert photography, Nikon D750, Ol' Mount'n Due. Comments Off on Ol’ Mount’n Due @ Britt (8/18/15)

“His Girl Friday” projected on the side of ScienceWorks (6/14/15)

This summer you can watch movies at ScienceWorks outdoors every other Sunday evening. It’s sort of like a drive-in movie experience.

Posted on June 24th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, buildings, night photography, Nikon D750, scienceworks, summer. Comments Off on Summer Screwball Series