Posted on May 8th, 2015 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: clouds, grizzly peak, landscape, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon D600, spring. Comments Off on Grizzly Peak in spring

Snow on a green Grizzly

We had snow last week. Today we will be in the 80s. Welcome to spring in Ashland.

Posted on April 20th, 2015 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: grizzly peak, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, snow, spring. Comments Off on April in Ashland

Southern Oregon University campus in April after a snowy night

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Posted on April 14th, 2015 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: campus, grizzly peak, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, snow, Southern Oregon University, spring. Comments Off on Squirrel on campus

@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball

The SOU softball team’s Spring “Break” consists of six games. They were supposed to play two today in Eugene, but those were rained out. They will play two tomorrow in Klamath Falls. Friday and Saturday will feature doubleheaders in Ashland. I’m on my way to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho for my Spring Break so I won’t see any of these games.

Posted on March 24th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: grizzly peak, Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, softball, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, spring. Comments Off on Four softball games at home this week

Grizzly Peak is brown for most of the year. Occasionally it will be white on top, and sometimes it is green on the side. However, an unusually warm winter and early spring, coupled with above average rain, has led to it being greener this March than at any other time I can remember.

Posted on March 22nd, 2015 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: grizzly peak, Nikon D750, spring, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Green Grizzly

Rainbow from Southern Oregon University campus

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Today is another great day to be a Raider.

Posted on February 5th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, campus, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, rainbow, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOU rainbow

Grizzly Peak from Elkader Street

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Today’s photo comes from November 2014. Construction is continuing on the Science Building on the SOU campus as you can see in this photo. The new Science Building will (supposedly) be ready in fall of this year.

Posted on January 4th, 2015 under only in ashland, places. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, campus, clouds, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Back to school tomorrow

2014 SOU football team and Grizzly Peak

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#9 MidAmerica Nazarene University from Kansas will be traveling to Southern Oregon next weekend (11/22/14) for the first round of the NAIA football playoffs. A quick look at their schedule shows they have only played one decent team en route to their 9-1 record. They beat Missouri Valley at home by 3 points. They lost to a sub-.500 team (Central Methodist) on the road last month.

The Raiders will need to rebound from this past weekend, but they should be heavy favorites going into this important game.

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: football, grizzly peak, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on MidAmerica Nazarene coming to Ashland

jpg image, straight out of the camera

I have mentioned several times before that there are situations where images shot as jpgs are “throw aways” that had they been shot in RAW format could be salvaged.

Today’s comparison is one such example. With a rainbow outside a dimly-lit gym, I had the choice of shooting the rainbow and getting a nearly black gym (above) or shooting the action on the court and getting a white sky (not shown). By shooting in RAW I was able to process the above image to come up with what you see below.

Ashland High School volleyball – rainbow out gym window in front of Grizzly Peak

By the way, Ashland won last night, advanced to the Sweet 16 in state, and will be playing in St. Helens on Saturday. The winner moves on to the Elite 8 round.

Posted on October 29th, 2014 under nature, only in ashland, photography. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, ashland high school, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, photography, rainbow, raw vs. jpg jpeg, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on RAW vs jpg (#6 or 7 or something)