Ashland Creek in Autumn
Another photo, today, from David Pasillas
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Winter Scene in Lithia Park
Ashland's Lithia Park in the snow
We finally have a bit of precipitation going on this week. Today’s photo is from my Sunday morning walk through Lithia Park while it was snowing a couple days ago.
Wishing for a different season
Lithia Park's Japanese Garden - May 2011
Winter is my least favorite time of year in Ashland. Grizzly Peak has turned brown, flowers are gone, only the pines retain any green, and the temperature is too cold to spend much time outside anyway. Sure it can be pretty at times, when fog creeps through the valley floor or when we get a fresh dusting of snow, but the six months it will take to get to scenes like that above seem to crawl by awfully slowly.
Autumn in Lithia Park
Are you sick of the fall foliage yet? Me neither. I took today’s photo earlier this week in the morning before the crowds gathered in Lithia Park to enjoy these trees in their splendor.
Ashland Creek from the road
The last time I showed you this scene was from right down by the water’s edge in a vertical shot. This landscape-orientation photo I took from the road that runs through Lithia Park.
Downstream
From the same spot as this location, I pointed my camera in the other direction to capture the above view of Ashland Creek in Lithia Park.
Ashland Creek (Lithia Park)
I think I have finally nailed this shot of Ashland Creek which I’ve taken several times before but never to my entire satisfaction. The key ingredients are:
1) right season (late spring or early summer–more green and more water)
2) tripod
3) right day and time (sunny day in the early morning before the sun is really out)
4) no wind (if the branches or leaves are blowing in the breeze then the “pop” doesn’t pop)
Equipment and EXIF data:
Nikon D7000
Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR II lens
$20 tripod
f/22
1 second exposure
ISO 280
18mm focal length
Outside Magazine’s Best Town Ever?
Outside Magazine is currently running a contest in which people can vote for the “Best Town Ever”. Of course, there is nothing scientific about the poll, and it’s merely just a ploy to get people to “like” Outside Magazine on Facebook, but Ashland is currently running second behind Tucson, Arizona. Really? Tucson? Can a city of over half a million people in the city limits with another half a million in the suburbs really be called a “town”, let alone be the “Best Town Ever”?
Anyway, today’s photo is from a real town. This is Ashland Creek which runs through this town, which will soon have less than 20,000 people once the SOU students split this weekend.
Ashland Creek
Another shot today of Ashland Creek in Lithia Park…
Ashland Creek
I headed down to Ashland Creek in Lithia Park this past weekend to try to find the scene I mentioned previously. I couldn’t really remember what it looked like by the time I got there, but I did find some good spots. The sky was overcast so I didn’t bring my tripod, thinking the conditions wouldn’t be ideal. I took several shots (including today’s photo) with longer shutter speeds to get the silky water effect, but without a tripod most of them didn’t come out great.
Yesterday I decided to try again with my tripod. The weather was better (sunny), but it turns out that for the longer shutter speeds sun is not your friend. I left the shutter open for 1/2 second (hand held) for today’s pic (with overcast skies), but that is far too long when the water is in the sun. I did find some shady spots, photographs of which I will show you in the future. Next time I want to try really poor lighting with a tripod and longer shutter speeds (like a full second) to see what kind of results can be achieved.