Tyler Baumgartner dives back into first ahead of the throw from Andrew Moore to Danny Hayes

The Oregon Ducks play their first game of the season in Eugene at 6 p.m. today. I’m getting the itch to head up the highway to catch a game or two. It’s been too long since I’ve last seen live baseball.

The first baseman in today’s photo, Danny Hayes of the OSU Beavers, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox. The pitcher, Andrew Moore, was only a freshman when I took this, and in addition to winning the Pac-12 Freshman Player of the Year Award, he was also named to the Baseball America All-America First Team.

Posted on February 25th, 2014 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: baseball, eugene, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, sports photography, UofO. Comments Off on Ducks begin home games for 2014 baseball season tonight

Allison Gida hugs her coach (Lynn Kennedy) on Senior Night

Ashland High School graduate Allison Gida helped lead the Southern Oregon University Raiders to two road victories over Warner Pacific and Concordia this past weekend. She averaged 21 points. She also tied the SOU record with 9 steals and had a career high 15 rebounds.

Posted on February 24th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Ashland’s Allison Gida wins Player of the Week Award (again)

The Delineators @ Club 66

Sometimes I get really behind in processing photos. There are more than a few dozen bands who I have taken photos of that I have never processed or posted (or even looked at). Such was the case with The Delineators until one of these photos came up as my random, desktop image of the day.

On this evening (almost a year ago) they played with Glimpse Trio and 100 Watt Mind. One of these days I’ll get to those photos as well.

setlist for The Delineators @ Club 66 (April 30, 2013)

Posted on February 24th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: club 66, concert photography, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, The Delineators. Comments Off on The Delineators @ Club 66

Sama Dams @ Ashland’s Lounge South (The Deli Downstairs during the day)

Posted on February 23rd, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, Lounge South, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Sama Dams @ Lounge South

SOU Women’s Basketball
Carly Meister

The Raiders are currently tied for fourth place with two games to go. They are just one game out of second place and just one game out of sixth place! The top four team will host the first round of the Cascade Conference Playoffs which begin next week. Tonight they face Warner Pacific at 5:30 in Portland. The playoff picture will clear up after tomorrow night’s games.

Posted on February 21st, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Basketball begins important weekend

flying over Lake Shasta

Posted on February 20th, 2014 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: aerial, california, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Flying over Shasta Lake

Lake of the Woods

Posted on February 19th, 2014 under outside of ashland. Tags: lake of the woods, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Lake of the Woods last summer

SOU Men’s Basketball
Dex Daum

SOU’s Men’s Basketball Team has moved up a notch before their last two road games of the year. Currently sitting in 2nd place in the conference, a sweep this weekend will result in two home games for the conference playoffs.

Posted on February 18th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: basketball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Up to #14 before final regular season games

Mossy trees in Monroe, Oregon

I went for a walk this past Sunday morning when we were staying at the Inn at Diamond Woods, a place on a golf course between Eugene and Corvallis. The grass was mostly flooded from the rain the day before so there weren’t many golfers.

The sun had barely peeked through the clouds when I took today’s photo. Rain began again soon thereafter which was fine by us since we were going to be indoors all the rest of the day at the CEVA Presidents’ Day Volleyball Tournament.

Posted on February 18th, 2014 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: moss, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, trees. Comments Off on Diamond Woods