Tokul @ Club 66 (11/20/14)

Opening for Atriarch last week…

Posted on November 26th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, club 66, concert photography, Nikon D750. Comments Off on Tokul @ Club 66

SOU football – Aldrick Rosas kicking a field goal against MNU

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If my son wasn’t coming home for Thanksgiving I’d be boarding a plane for Montana in a few days. If you don’t have plans this weekend, or if you can cancel them because they don’t sound as fun as this opportunity, check out this deal. Hopefully the Raiders win, and I’ll be on a plane the next weekend to Iowa or Illinois.

Posted on November 25th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Travel to Montana with the team?

SOU basketball – Eric Thompson (edited)

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The SOU men’s basketball team continues their road games tonight against Simpson. This will be their fifth (of ten) consecutive road games. Today’s photo comes from their game against Simpson in Ashland earlier this month.

I sometimes have photographers (who have never been in the Riehm Arena) tell me how lucky I am to have such good lighting in a gym. HA! They have no idea how happy I will be to see the new gym lighting when McNeal Pavilion is torn down and the new facility is built. I have shot in many gyms and McNeal has the most difficult lighting. It is a yellow flicker. Most high schools have much better lighting.

Anyway, to give you an idea of how much I have to edit to come up with the photo you see above, check out how the original image started below.

SOU basketball – Eric Thompson (unedited)

Posted on November 25th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, basketball, Nikon D750, photography, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU basketball still on the road

Rob Wynia and Triptych Trio @ Howiee’s in Medford (11/15/14)

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Floater and 100 Watt Mind are playing in a few weeks in Medford (December 12, 2014). Howiee’s on Front Street is the place.

Posted on November 24th, 2014 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, floater, howiee's on front street, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D750. Comments Off on Floater playing in Medford

SOU football team beats MNU on 11/22/14 in the rain

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The 2014 NAIA Football Championship Series Quarterfinal Pairings came out this morning and have SOU going to play Carroll for the third time this season. You’d think that with 88 football teams in the NAIA they could come up with a way that you didn’t have to play a team three times (unless the third time was a championship game which this isn’t). In any event, SOU knows they can beat Carroll, Carroll knows SOU is probably the only team that can beat them, and for all intents and purposes the 11/29 game is the championship game. I’m sure Carroll would rather play any of the other remaining teams.

As it turned out (according to the 2014 NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll), #8 is at #1, #7 is at #2, etc. That means, of course, that had SOU gotten past EOU last week SOU would likely be hosting another game against the #5 or #6 team instead of going on the road to play the #1 team. Oh well. SOU didn’t get screwed as much as EOU, the third best team in the country according to better rankings, who was not even given the chance to play in the final 16.

Posted on November 23rd, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, rain, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Time for a third meeting with Carroll

Atriarch @ Club 66 (November 20, 2014)

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The wait was worth it. However, I hope it won’t be another three years before Atriarch plays in Southern Oregon again.

Posted on November 21st, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, atriarch, club 66, concert photography, Nikon D750. Comments Off on Atriarch @ Club 66 on 11/20/14

SOU wrestling – Devin Poppen beat UGF’s Jared Berlinger 17-8

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Tomorrow (11/22/14) the Southern Oregon University wrestlers will compete in the Nor Cal Collegiate Open in Redding, California.

Posted on November 21st, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, wrestling. Comments Off on #2 Raiders defeat #3 Great Falls

Sylent Storm’s James Lind

Today’s photo is from, perhaps, the final performance of Sylent Storm.

Posted on November 21st, 2014 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, musichead, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D750, sylent storm. Comments Off on Sylent Storm

Emigrant Lake, Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, and Medford from Soda Mountain

Although this wasn’t the best time of day or best time of the year for a photo like this, the views from Soda Mountain are very good. Dusk or dawn from this location, particularly after fresh snow or once things have greened up in spring, and I imagine it is spectacular. Emigrant Lake is very low in this photo. The next weekend I went out and took this photo.

Posted on November 20th, 2014 under only in ashland, places. Tags: emigrant lake, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, soda mountain. Comments Off on Ashland from Soda Mountain