SOU men’s basketball – Tim Weber

@SOURaiders @TimWeber14

The cropped picture and story can be found here.

Posted on December 14th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, the whole picture, tim weber. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 9)

SOU women’s basketball – Bree Park

@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB @Breezyyy_13

The cropped picture and story can be found here.

Posted on December 13th, 2014 under people. Tags: basketball, bree park, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, the whole picture. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 8)

Southern Oregon University football

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @TamronUSA

Fun fact #3: Win, lose, or draw in Daytona, no NAIA team will finish the 2014 football season with more wins than the Raiders. 12 wins is not only a record for the Raiders, it is also more wins than any team in the NAIA has achieved this year. Let’s make it lucky number 13 for good measure.

P.S. Today’s photo, and these photos, were taken with the Tamron 150-600mm lens–a lens mostly marketed to, and used by, wildlife photographers. I found it to work rather well on the “wild life” found on a football field.

Posted on December 13th, 2014 under people, photography. Tags: football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 6 days to Daytona

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football

Fun fact #2: When all is said and done, SOU will have played 15 football games this year–50% more games than many teams. Most NAIA teams play 10 or 11 games in a season.

Posted on December 12th, 2014 under outside of ashland, photography. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, panorama, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, sports photography. Comments Off on 7 days to Daytona

Heston Altenbach and Laurence Calcagno celebrate Altenbach’s defensive touchdown
caused by Calcagno’s tipped pass while Alex Stork and Joseph Lealofi join the party

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @JP_Daytona

Fun fact: No football team in the NAIA will finish the 2014 season with fewer than two losses. However, if SOU defeats Marian next week in the National Championship Game, they will be the only team to have a non-losing record against each and every one of their opponents. Southern Oregon University was 2-1 against Carroll College and 1-1 against Eastern Oregon University.

Posted on December 11th, 2014 under people. Tags: football, Heston Altenbach, JOSEPH LEALOFI, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on 8 days to Daytona

2014 SOU football team, families, friends, and fans in Medford airport on way to Chicago last week

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @racetodaytona

A similar scene to today’s photo will happen not in 9 days but in a mere 5 days. If you’d like to help the team get to Daytona, or if you’d like to ride on the flight with them, see this article for details.

Posted on December 10th, 2014 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, football, medford, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics. Comments: 1

@FOTAS @PupsPorn @DailyPups @TheDaiIyPuppy

We are currently fostering a couple of dogs for the Jackson County Animal Shelter. We will have them until a new owner comes forward or two weeks, whichever comes first.

Special offer on these–buy one, get one free. The first one is also free. You do the math. Leave a comment if in Southern Oregon and interested.

Posted on December 8th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750. Comments Off on Pitbull puppies

SOU football – Dylan Young (Raider record holder for most TD catches)

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football @DY_Lee11 @Play_NAIA

Once again, Hensley Ratings showed that they know more about which teams are better than the coaches. The NAIA Championship Game in Florida next week (12/19/14) looks, on paper (based on the NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll), like a surprising #8 seed (SOU) vs. a surprising #7 seed (Marian). However, when the final computer rankings came out a few weeks ago, the Raiders were #2 and Marian was #3. As I mentioned before, the Carroll vs. SOU quarterfinal game pitted the top two teams against each other and SOU came out on top.

So don’t be surprised that Southern Oregon University and Marian University Indianapolis made it to the finals. Be surprised that they weren’t awarded home games for the quarter and semifinals.

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under people. Tags: dylan young, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Computer rankings > coaches rankings

SOU football – Austin Dodge and Sean Tow in yesterday’s road victory over Chicago’s St. Xavier University (ranked #3 in the nation)

@Seantow17 @SOURaiders @SOU_Football

Details here. More photos coming here soon.

Posted on December 7th, 2014 under people. Tags: austin dodge, football, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sean tow, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Raiders will be playing in National Championship Game