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Southern Oregon University Dogwood blossoms
Like all of the other flowering plants and trees this year, the dogwoods in front of Central Hall blossomed early. Today’s photo is from late April, and the dogwoods don’t normally look like this until May 10 or so. They are long gone now.
AHS Track & Field
The color of the trees when they first get their leaves in late April is somehow different than the color of the leaves in mid-summer.
Southern Oregon University’s Indian Color Festival 2013
This is International Week at Southern Oregon University. As part of the festivities, yesterday featured a Holi or Indian Color Festival.
SOU International Student Association (ISA) President Sohana Bakshi
Thursday night is the annual International Show in the Music Recital Hall on campus. Admission is free and doors open at 6. In some years the line has been so long that people who didn’t arrive before the doors opened were turned away due to lack of available seating so get there early. The show starts at 6:30.
More photos from the color festival can be found here and here.
Jessica Flores
#thesiskiyoupad After Irene Barrantes caught a line drive at third, she fired the ball over to first to double off this College of Idaho runner. As the photos show, the ump made the correct call.
After getting 10-run ruled in the first game of their doubleheader against Eagle Point yesterday, the Ashland High School girls softball team came back from a 12-2 deficit in the second game to pull off a stunning, 15-14 victory.
Irene Barrantes diving catch
Most of my photomerges are in the three-to-five photo range. Sometimes they are just two photos. However, I like to try new things. So at last Saturday’s SOU softball game I set my D600 to “Ch” for continuous high speed shooting. The sky was overcast so I went with 1/4000, f/8, ISO-2000. If it was sunnier I would have went with something like 1/4000, f/11, ISO-800. Next time if it is overcast I think I will try something more along the lines of 1/1000, f/10, ISO-1600.
Anyway, I then focused on the batter at 70mm from behind first base. When she connected I immediately began firing as I turned my camera toward right field. Twenty eight photos (and about four seconds) later I was done shooting. The photomerged result can be seen above. After the photomerge my file size was almost 3 GB for what had become a single photo! I resized it and did a bit of editing to get it down to about the 1 MB image I uploaded. Click on the photo for the more detailed 1 MB version and to have it fill your screen.
Ashland Little League softball
…girls of spring?
One of my reasons for shooting yesterday’s softball game was to see if I could get away with taking only my Nikon 70-300mm VR to Japan and Korea this summer where I plan to attend several professional baseball games. My other option is to take my 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.7X teleconverter. The problem is those two combined weigh more than twice as much as my 70-300mm and they take up more space in my luggage.
The 70-300mm passed the test in sunny conditions. Unfortunately, most of the games I will go to in Korea and Japan will probably be at night and/or indoors. I’m still leaning towards the 70-300mm though.
Irene Barrantes – SOU softball
Karlie Stephens
… en route to a game one victory over Northwest Christian University yesterday. The Raiders went on to win both games of the doubleheader to improve their record to 5-1 in the conference. Today SOU faces Concordia in another doubleheader. The first game begins at 11 a.m. in Ashland.