I’m guessing Jolene isn’t looking for any orders today or tomorrow, but here was the scene at my house last week.

Posted on December 24th, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: bokeh, christmas, food, jolene's sweets, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D600, trees. Comments Off on Jolene’s Sweets for Christmas

Q&A with the directors of “Slomo” and “Life on Four Strings”

2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival Awards Celebration
Still from “The Other Side” being shown on background
Song E Kim (Bite of the Tail) enjoying some dinner conversation

Jim Teece

Posted on April 21st, 2013 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, bokeh, Nikon D600. Comments Off on More photos from the 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival

Lucy Walker – Rogue Award Winner

#AIFF13 Andrew Mudge – The Forgotten Kingdom (Anne Ashbey – Executive Director of Ashland Independent Film Festival)

Historic Ashland Armory all fancied up for the Awards Celebration

My favorite short film of the festival, Slomo (Josh Izenberg)

Song E Kim – Bite of the Tail

Posted on April 8th, 2013 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, bokeh, lucy walker, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600. Comments Off on 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival Winners

Posted on March 31st, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: bokeh, easter, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, nikon d7000, spring. Comments Off on Happy Easter!

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.

Posted on March 19th, 2013 under outside of ashland. Tags: bokeh, Nikon 50mm f/1.2 Nikkor AI-S Manual Focus Lens, Nikon D600, photography. Comments Off on Betty Boop

Jolene baked up some more desserts for me to photograph a week ago. Last time I used only natural light from her dining room windows to illuminate her sweets. This time thick fog wrapped the house so natural light wasn’t an option. I used a different lens and some alternative lighting for a different look.

Posted on December 9th, 2012 under only in ashland. Tags: bokeh, food, jolene's sweets, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600. Comments Off on More desserts from Jolene’s Sweets

We had several fawns hang out in our backyard last year, but this is the first one I have seen in 2012.

Posted on August 6th, 2012 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: bokeh, deer, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, nikon d7000, wildlife. Comments: 3

Southern Oregon pears

Today’s photo of pear blossoms was taken much earlier in the month. Now the pear trees are all green and the blossoms are long gone. In a few months they will be loaded with pears. I’ll have to take another visit to this same spot then for a photo of the pears on the trees.

Posted on May 27th, 2012 under nature. Tags: bokeh, flowers, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, nikon d7000. Comments Off on Macro pear blossoms

Pretty much the only flower you see regularly in Ashland is the daffodil. Why? It’s about the only flower the deer won’t eat.

Posted on April 11th, 2012 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: bokeh, flowers, nikkor 35mm f/1.8 lens, nikon d7000, spring. Comments: 1