Raider Stadium at dusk

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This Saturday’s NAIA playoff game will begin at 4 p.m.

Although it’s too early to know exactly what the weather will be, the current forecast is for a 90% chance of rain and lows in the 30s. My one pair of thermals weren’t enough by the end of last Saturday’s 3 p.m. game. I’m going to have to double down this Saturday.

Get your tickets here.

Posted on November 18th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Under the lights again

Gaelic Storm and Siskiyou Kelt @ Live at the Armory (11/21/14)

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Only a couple days left to purchase tickets for the reduced price.

Gaelic Storm
Live at the Armory
November 21, 2014

Posted on November 18th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: Historic Ashland Armory, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 g lens, Nikon D750. Comments Off on Gaelic Storm @ LATA

SOU’s Churchill Hall in autumn

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Friday was the last day of this year to catch this scene. The leaves were falling fast and furiously (as you can see if you look really closely at today’s photo; those are leaves in the air, not birds), and the weekend was a windy one.

Posted on November 17th, 2014 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: autumn, buildings, campus, leaves, Nikon D750, Southern Oregon University, sun, sun star, Tamron SP 24-70mm Di VC USD, trees. Comments Off on Fall

2014 SOU football senior day panorama – click on the photo for a much higher resolution version

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Drew Gibson

Ronald Rylance

Coach Howard and Austin Dodge

Daniel Breaux

Laurence Calcagno

Michael Bryant

Dylan Young

Steven Josephson

Nick Tatom

Colton Grimwood

Dustin Fretwell and Coach Howard

Heston Altenbach

Ryan Retzlaff

Blakelyn Birks

Coach Howard and Laurence Calcagno – Link to photo here

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: austin dodge, Coach Craig Howard, colton grimwood, drew gibson, football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, panorama, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, Ryan Retzlaff, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on 2014 SOU football seniors

Eastern quarterback Zach Bartlow launches a pass

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Justin Hernandez is in position to make the catch

but the ball has other ideas

Karrington Jones

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland, people, photography. Tags: football, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Karrington Jones interception sequence

2014 SOU football team and Grizzly Peak

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#9 MidAmerica Nazarene University from Kansas will be traveling to Southern Oregon next weekend (11/22/14) for the first round of the NAIA football playoffs. A quick look at their schedule shows they have only played one decent team en route to their 9-1 record. They beat Missouri Valley at home by 3 points. They lost to a sub-.500 team (Central Methodist) on the road last month.

The Raiders will need to rebound from this past weekend, but they should be heavy favorites going into this important game.

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: football, grizzly peak, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on MidAmerica Nazarene coming to Ashland

SOU volleyball – Sam Boehnke

The opponent is not yet known, but the Raiders will likely be home Saturday night (11/22/14) to try to win their way to Sioux City, Iowa for the NAIA volleyball championships. Like the football team, the ladies are hoping to reverse their results from the prior weekend. Hopefully both teams will be smiling by the end of Saturday.

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Sam Boehnke, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, volleyball. Comments Off on SOU volleyball to host first round playoff game

SOU football – Coach Howard, Melvin Mason, Matt Retzlaff, Blakelyn Birks, Ronald Rylance, Dylan Bratlie, Tylor King

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Although the results of yesterday’s game didn’t go according to plan, the Raiders did end up (barely) in the top eight in the final rankings which should give them a home game in the first round of the NAIA playoffs.

Posted on November 16th, 2014 under only in ashland, people. Tags: dylan bratlie, 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 8 is enough

Sammich‘s Burg

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Posted on November 14th, 2014 under only in ashland. Tags: food, Nikon D750, sammich, Tamron SP 24-70mm Di VC USD. Comments Off on Today’s lunch