Ja’Quay Rucker and Dylan Young

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Dylan Young asked me for one last photo as his career as a Raider ended last month. I was happy to oblige with the above. However, he better be comping me a photo pass next year when he is playing for the Cowboys so that this isn’t the last photo I take of him. 😉

For some of my prior photos of Dylan, click here.

Posted on January 5th, 2015 under people. Tags: dylan young, football, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics. Comments Off on Dylan Young

Grizzly Peak from Elkader Street

@SOUAshland

Today’s photo comes from November 2014. Construction is continuing on the Science Building on the SOU campus as you can see in this photo. The new Science Building will (supposedly) be ready in fall of this year.

Posted on January 4th, 2015 under only in ashland, places. Tags: AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8G ED lens, campus, clouds, grizzly peak, Nikon D750, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Back to school tomorrow

SOU football coaches with the NAIA Championship trophy

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Nathaniel Timoteo, Daniel Abernethy, and Mason Alfaro

Colin Davis and Gannon Schroder

Sean Tow and Coach Stu

Posted on January 2nd, 2015 under people. Tags: chris fisk, colin davis, football, gannon schroder, mason alfaro, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on More photos of champions and their trophy

David and Kaila Weider

The Daniel Breaux family

Brianne Craig and Kolby Koberstein

Jacob Proul

Josh Winfield and Alex Stork

Posted on December 31st, 2014 under people. Tags: alex stork, Brianne Craig, Daniel Breaux, football, jacob proul, Josh Winfield, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University. Comments: 1

SOU football – Dylan Young and Austin Dodge lift the NAIA Championship trophy while Heston Altenbach looks on

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Check it out.

P.S. Matt Sayre isn’t fat. Here is a non-distorted version…

Athletic Director Matt Sayre looks on in Daytona Beach, Florida as the Raiders win the NAIA national championship

Posted on December 31st, 2014 under people. Tags: dylan young, football, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on Raider Athletics – Top 10 of 2014

Mount McLoughlin from Roxy Ann Peak trail

Posted on December 30th, 2014 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: landscape, mount mcloughlin, Mt. McLaughlin, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, Roxy Ann Peak. Comments Off on Mt. McLoughlin from Medford

Austin Dodge

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… this happened.

David Weider, Kolby Koberstein, Gannon Schroder, Dylan Bratlie, Keegan Lawrence, and Nathaniel Timoteo

Daniel Breaux

Dylan Young

JJ Latu

Melvin Mason

Bubba Rylance, Max Proudfit, and Austin Dodge

Posted on December 29th, 2014 under people. Tags: austin dodge, bubba rylance, Daniel Breaux, dylan young, football, JJ Latu, keegan lawrence, Max Proudfit, melvin mason, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tyler Stinn. Comments Off on 10 days ago …

Ben Bachman will be a sophomore, Jeremy Scottow will be a senior, and Sean McShane will be a senior in 2015.

Grant Torgerson will be a senior in 2015.

Melvin Mason will be a junior in 2015.

Thomas Giddens will be a senior in 2015.

Nathaniel Timoteo will be a senior in 2015.

Gannon Schroder and Tylor King will be seniors in 2015.

Aldrick Rosas, whose string or 116 consecutive PATs was broken this year but he has started another string of 15 to be continued next year, will be a junior in 2015.

Matt Retzlaff will be a junior in 2015.

I’m still getting lots of requests for prints of these photos of the football team in the NAIA Championship game. Instructions are in this earlier post.

Posted on December 28th, 2014 under people. Tags: Aldrick Rosas, alex stork, ben bachman, crowd, football, gannon schroder, Grant Torgerson, julius rucker, Matt Retzlaff, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, sean mcshane, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, thomas giddens, Tyler Stinn, tylor king. Comments Off on More returning Raiders

View of Mt. Ashland from Roxy Ann Peak Trail

@mtashland @TravelOregon

The day before heading to Daytona, two weeks ago today, we took a walk up to the top of Roxy Ann Peak. Strangely enough, this was our first time up Roxy Ann Peak even though we have lived in the Rogue Valley for over 14 years now.

The weather forecast was for no rain. That’s not what the sky looked like. We didn’t get rained on, but it did begin raining the moment we got into the car at the end of our hike. This storm ultimately turned out to hold enough snow for the mountains that Mt. Ashland was able to open a few days later for the first time in two seasons.

Posted on December 28th, 2014 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: hike, landscape, mt. ashland, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, Roxy Ann Peak. Comments Off on Road to Mt. Ashland