Surfing in the sea near Carmel-by-the-Sea

Today’s photo is from our drive back to Oregon from our Christmas in Santa Barbara. We headed up California State Route 1 (AKA Highway 1 or Coast Highway) and stopped off for a beautiful sunset in Carmel. Just before that sunset, today’s photo happened.

Posted on December 28th, 2013 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: california, carmel by the sea, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, sports photography. Comments Off on Surfing Carmel

Nine-photo photomerge from the Santa Barbara County Courthouse

According to the TripAdvisor website, the best attraction in Santa Barbara is the nearly one-hundred-year-old Santa Barbara Courthouse. Today’s photo is about 200 degrees of the view from the top of the clock tower. The Santa Ynez Mountains, pictured in this panorama, were our next stop.

Posted on December 26th, 2013 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: california, mountains, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, photoshop photomerge, Santa Barbara. Comments Off on Santa Barbara panorama

snowy Ashland sunrise

Today’s photo comes from this past Tuesday morning.

Posted on December 16th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, snow, sunrise, winter. Comments Off on Sunrise over snowy Ashland

view while walking along White Rabbit Trail in the Ashland watershed

Posted on December 13th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: hike, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, sun star. Comments Off on White Rabbit Trail

Carrots @ Portland Saturday Farmer’s Market @ PSU

Today’s photo is from last Saturday morning. Portland was experiencing some relatively rare sun, and it was hitting these carrots just so. I couldn’t resist a pic.

Posted on November 28th, 2013 under outside of ashland. Tags: food, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, portland. Comments Off on Happy Thanksgiving!

Sunset out the window of car moving 70 MPH down I-5 somewhere near Roseburg, Oregon

Posted on November 25th, 2013 under outside of ashland. Tags: i-5, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, sunset. Comments Off on I-5 sunset

bald eagle with rodent in claws

I have been kicking myself since June for only having my 24-120mm lens with me the first time I visited this ranch in Oregon high desert country. The second time I brought my 70-300mm lens, but there were no eagle sightings on that day.

This photo showed up as my background, desktop photo of the day so I decided to process it. When I viewed it at 100% I realized that this eagle has a field mouse in its talons. You can see it too if you click on the image (maybe twice depending on your browser) to view it at 100%.

Posted on November 21st, 2013 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: beatty, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Bald eagles hunt rodents too

Last night’s dinner consisted of a another delicious Sammich. Not the one pictured above, that one is from the archives. I didn’t have my camera with me last night. The one above was a special (Miguelito) and hence not on the regular menu board (pictured below).

Sammich menu board
Ashland, Oregon

Posted on November 10th, 2013 under only in ashland, places. Tags: food, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, sammich. Comments Off on Sammich menu board

SOU

Now that classes have been in full swing for a few days, it won’t be easy to find a people-less photo opportunity on campus anymore. I took today’s photo last week before most of the students were back.

Posted on October 2nd, 2013 under only in ashland, places. Tags: campus, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University