Emissary opening for Queensryche @ 2025 Boatnik (Grants Pass, Oregon)

Emissary’s Peter Kinney

Charlie Francipane and Jym Harris

Posted on May 24th, 2025 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, emissary, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z50II. Comments Off on Emissary @ Boatnik last night

Posted on April 28th, 2025 under nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: clouds, emigrant lake, grizzly peak, hike, landscape, mt. ashland, mt. shasta, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, panorama, photoshop photomerge, pilot rock, skywatch. Comments Off on One year ago today…

Pilot Rock (near the California border) on the right with Emigrant Lake down below (April 2024)

If memory serves, I took today’s photo more so that I could look up the names of the mountains I was unfamiliar with than for the scene.

Is that Black Mountain just to the left of Pilot Rock (in the foreground) and Cottonwood Peak just to the right?

Posted on November 19th, 2024 under nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: clouds, emigrant lake, grizzly peak, landscape, mt. shasta, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, pilot rock, skywatch. Comments Off on Mt. Shasta from Grizzly Peak

Looking east in Ashland, Oregon

I’ve posted this view many times before, usually a sunrise. However, sometimes a look to the east can be nice even as the sun is setting in the opposite direction.

Posted on October 26th, 2024 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: clouds, home, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, skywatch, sunset. Comments Off on Eastern sunset

Ashland, Oregon (April 2024)

Posted on September 29th, 2024 under nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: grizzly peak, landscape, mt. ashland, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, siskiyous. Comments Off on Mt. Ashland from Grizzly Peak

May 2024 (Upper Table Rock)

This song bird was singing for a while with no others responding. I tried to answer by mimicking the sound, but the bird just looked at me like I was an idiot.

Posted on September 15th, 2024 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: hike, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, Upper Table Rock, wildlife. Comments Off on Salpinctes obsoletus

Upper Table Rock along the Rogue River (May 19, 2024)

May isn’t the best time of year for wildflowers on Upper Table Rock, but there were still lots along the way up. March and April are better months (especially in years with lots of early spring rain) for wildflowers on the top.

Posted on June 21st, 2024 under nature, outside of ashland, photography. Tags: flowers, hike, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, Upper Table Rock. Comments Off on Upper Table Rock Wildflower

Upper Table Rock squirrel (May 2024)

Posted on June 10th, 2024 under nature, outside of ashland, photography, places. Tags: Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, Upper Table Rock, wildlife. Comments Off on When you make it to the top of Upper Table Rock

A “blue belly” Western Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) curing a tick of Lyme disease

Posted on May 28th, 2024 under nature, outside of ashland, photography, places. Tags: hike, Nikkor Z DX 50-250mm f/4.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, Upper Table Rock, wildlife. Comments Off on Western Fence Lizard with a tick