Taylor Harrison

@Taylored365 @SOULACROSSE

Noon start time at Raider Stadium.

Posted on April 3rd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, Southern Oregon Men's Lacrosse, sports photography, taylor harrison. Comments Off on Southern Oregon Lacrosse plays in Ashland today

Nick Sanderson

Doubleheader against Springfield at North Mountain Park. First game starts at 1.

Posted on April 2nd, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland high school, baseball, nick sanderson, NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, sports photography. Comments Off on Ashland High School baseball @ home today

Sydney White strikes out a batter during her 135-pitch shutout

Yesterday SOU beat first place OIT twice for the first time in five years. Details here.

Today’s photo is a composite of two photos. If you look closely you’ll see that the right side-infielders are cheering. That’s because by the time I got to them the batter had already swung and missed.

Posted on March 30th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, clouds, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, photoshop photomerge, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography, sydney white. Comments Off on Sydney White throws a 9-inning shutout

101 years ago Ty Cobb did this

@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball

Gameday! Big games today as second place SOU welcomes first place Oregon Tech to Ashland. Game times are 2 and 4 p.m.

Abigail Lund doing the Ty Cobb pose

Posted on March 29th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Abigail Lund, NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, softball, sports photography. Comments Off on Abigail “Ty Cobb” Lund

Muir Creek (near Muir Creek Falls) from the east

As I mentioned a couple days ago, my first goal on my snowshoeing adventure last week was to see Muir Creek Falls in winter. There isn’t a single photo of the place in winter on the internet. The normal trail to the falls is 3.9 miles each way. I wasn’t up for 8 miles in snowshoes, especially since I had a late start and wouldn’t be arriving until late afternoon. So, in looking at a map, I decided to try to get there from the Claude Lewis Trailhead / Sno-Park parking lot. The two places appeared to be only about 1,000 feet from each other on Google Maps.

The parking lot was easy to find and well plowed. I was the only person there. There were no trails or prints of any kind so I had to forge my own path, something snowshoes are pretty good for. The snow varied from a few feet to over 10-feet deep in places. The snow was very soft, and I sank 6-12 inches with every step, even with snowshoes. Although the going was mostly flat, after 1,000 feet or so I came to the scene shown in today’s photo. Muir Creek was right in front of me, but it was a hundred + feet down with no trails or feasible way to make the descent.

Posted on March 28th, 2016 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: hike, muir creek, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, snow, winter. Comments Off on Muir Creek in winter

Ashland Armory

@FrameByFrameDoc @RedReelVideo @moscarpelli @ashlandfilm #AIFF2016 #AIFF15

The 15th annual Ashland Film Festival begins next week. Tickets to members have been on sale for a few days now. If you aren’t a member, today is the first day to pick up tickets. Details here.

Photos from prior years can be found here.

Mo Scarpelli answering questions at the 2015 Ashland Independent Film Festival about “Frame by Frame”

Posted on March 27th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: ashland independent film festival aiff, blue hour, Historic Ashland Armory, Nikon D750, varsity theatre coming attractions theater. Comments Off on AIFF 2016 tickets go on sale today

Easter Bunny pink flamingo lawn ornaments

Last year’s costumes…

Posted on March 27th, 2016 under only in ashland. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, pink flamingos lawn ornaments. Comments Off on Happy Easter!

Sunset looking away from Crater Lake

Thursday I headed to Crater Lake, and surrounding areas, with two goals. I failed to reach either goal.

My first goal was to snowshoe to Muir Creek Falls from the Claude Lewis Trailhead parking lot. Didn’t quite happen. More on that later.

My second goal was to capture a sunset, for the first time, at Crater Lake. Today’s photo is as close as I got. Those clouds on the right covered the lake and turned into thick fog as well just minutes after I took this photo. I had high hopes too, as Crater Lake looked like this less than an hour before sundown.

Posted on March 26th, 2016 under nature, outside of ashland, photography, places. Tags: crater lake, Nikon D750, Rokinon 14mm Ultra Wide-Angle f/2.8 IF ED UMC Lens For Nikon, snow, sunset, trees, winter. Comments Off on Snowy sunset

SOU’s 2015 football team and 2015-16 women’s basketball team both came in 2nd place nationwide

@LSDirectorsCup @SOU_Football @raidersayre @SOURaiders

You can read about SOU’s 6th place standing in the Directors’ Cup here. Digging into the data a little deeper reveals that the schools in front of Southern in the rankings all have swim teams (SOU, and most NAIA schools, do not). If you back out the swim points, SOU is actually in first place!

With less than 30 teams competing in swimming at the NAIA level, why does swimming get equal rating with football (87 programs have football)? Or basketball (over 130 programs have basketball in NAIA DII)?

Posted on March 25th, 2016 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 Southern Oregon University and the NAIA’s Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup