Lucy Walker discusses The Crash Reel with the Historic Ashland Armory audience

#AIFF13 Rogue Award Winner Lucy Walker is my favorite movie maker. I have only seen The Crash Reel and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, but now I must see everything else she has done.

Ashland Independent Film Festival 2013 Rogue Award Winner Lucy Walker

Posted on April 7th, 2013 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, lucy walker, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600. Comments: 1

Nic Temple performing on 4/4/13 in the SOU Music Recital Hall

Posted on April 7th, 2013 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: campus, music, Nic Temple, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Nic Temple Honors Piano Recital

AIFF – Ashland Independent Film Festival

The last couple days have been pretty crazy photo wise. I probably have about 1,000 keepers from about ten different events (including not only the AIFF events but also Nic Temple’s piano recital, SOU softball doubleheader, some wild weather panoramas, and Father Doug at Club 66). Now I just need to sort through them all…

Posted on April 6th, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8G ED AF-S Nikkor Wide Angle Zoom Lens, Nikon D600, signs. Comments Off on 2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival

I had a delicious lunch at Club 66 yesterday featuring this ham and pepperoncini sandwich.

Tuesday night (4/9/13), metal will once again be featured at Club 66. Facinorous, a deliciously evil metal band from California, will be hitting the Club 66 stage.

Posted on April 5th, 2013 under only in ashland. Tags: club 66, food, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D600. Comments Off on Club 66 – Ashland, Oregon (music venue, restaurant)

Ashland Little League softball

…girls of spring?

Posted on April 3rd, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, people, places. Tags: flowers, Nikkor 70-300mm VR, Nikon D600, softball, sports photography, spring. Comments Off on Boys of summer…

Rob Maramonte of the band Fallujah (March 22, 2013)

I went to Medford to see Witch Cult and Fallujah a couple weeks ago. It was the first (and last) time I have been to The Wreckroom. The sound was OK for Witch Cult, but it was awful for Fallujah so they only played a few songs. The lighting was also abysmal. It was like a concert in a small, dark closet. Hopefully, Fallujah will play somewhere else, like Musichead or Club 66, next time through.

Andrew Baird of Fallujah @ The Wreckroom in Medford, Oregon

Posted on April 2nd, 2013 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, medford, Nikon D600, sigma 85mm f/1.4. Comments: 3

SOU campus between storms

The return of students to campus after spring break doesn’t have quite the mystique of the start of the school year in fall, but the campus today still has a bit more excitement in the air than normal.

Posted on April 1st, 2013 under only in ashland, places. Tags: campus, clouds, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF, photoshop photomerge, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Back to school day

Grizzly Peak photomerge

Grizzly Peak has been a frequent subject on this blog. I have taken photos from this spot on numerous occasions, but this is the first time that I photomerged nearly 180 degrees of scenery from this location including a bit of East Main Street. I stood so that both sets of power lines would run straight from my position once photomerged even though they actually are perpendicular to each other.

Posted on March 30th, 2013 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: clouds, grizzly peak, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF, panorama, photoshop photomerge. Comments Off on Grizzly Peak panorama from East Main Street

Upper Yosemite Falls from Mist Trail

On my other blog, I’ll be posting a dozen photos or so from our spring break trip to Yosemite earlier this week. Today’s photo is from early on in the Mist Trail, perhaps our favorite of the several trails we walked.

Posted on March 29th, 2013 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: hike, Nikon D600, Nikon Nikkor Wide-angle lens 24 mm F/2.8 D AF, yosemite national park. Comments Off on View from Yosemite’s Mist Trail