Ashland in the fog

I took today’s photo more for the hundreds of birds that were streaking across the sky than for the fog, but the photo didn’t look like it featured birds. Instead, it looked like I had small specs of dirt all over my lens so I photoshopped the specs out and left only the bird on the top of the tree in the bottom portion of the photo, two trees left of center.

Posted on February 4th, 2014 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: fog, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Fog in the valley below

Fire in the Northwest @ Club 66 (1/31/14)

Fire in the Northwest will be be playing again in a week (2/10/14) @ Johnny B’s in Medford with Icarus The Owl and The Herbal Crew.

Chad Westholder

Noah Smith

Fire in the Northwest’s Sharif Young

Posted on February 3rd, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: club 66, concert photography, fire in the northwest, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Fire in the Northwest @ Club 66

EHMD @ Club 66 (1/17/14)

Opening for Cold Blue Mountain a few weeks back was EHMD, a local band.

Posted on February 2nd, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: club 66, concert photography, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D600. Comments Off on EHMD @ Club 66

Miles was honored by Southern Oregon University, his alma mater, in 2005 when he was the recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Tonight his team defeated Corban for his one-thousandth win.

Posted on February 1st, 2014 under people. Tags: basketball, danny miles, Nikon D600, sports photography. Comments Off on OIT Men’s Basketball Coach Danny Miles wins #1,000

SOU Women’s Basketball
Ashley Claussen

Tonight they defeated Northwest Christian 84-68 in Eugene. Ashley Claussen scored 13 points to go along with 4 rebounds and 3 assists.

Posted on February 1st, 2014 under people. Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Basketball wins both games on road weekend trip

SOU Softball
Sydney White

Concordia-Irvine won the National Championship last year, and they are ranked #1 this year, but two of their past three losses (mingled with 48 victories) are against the SOU Women’s Softball Team. Sydney White led the way, as she probably will all this season, with a complete game victory.

Posted on February 1st, 2014 under people. Tags: Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, softball, Southern Oregon University, sydney white. Comments Off on SOU Softball Team defeats #1 team

View from Grizzly Peak during minimal snow winter

I have yet to break out my snow shoes this winter. Last weekend we hiked to the top of Grizzly Peak where I took this photo from. Last year at this time this was the scene miles below the location of today’s photo.

This year we were able to drive all the way to the parking lot which is pretty much unheard of in January or February. From there the trail usually has several feet of snow on it in winter as it is in the shade and doesn’t melt until May or so. Not this year.

Posted on February 1st, 2014 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: grizzly peak, hike, mountains, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600, winter. Comments Off on Strange winter scene on Grizzly Peak

SOU Women’s Basketball
Autumn Durand

Autumn scored 19 points to go along with her 4 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 steals.

Posted on January 31st, 2014 under people. Tags: autumn durand, basketball, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Durand leads Raiders to 83-74 win over Corban

SOU Men’s Basketball
Eric Thompson

More details here.

Posted on January 31st, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, eric thompson, Nikon D600, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Eric Thompson makes Academic All-District 4 team