Half of Eight Dollar Mountain at the OSF Green Show (June 2023)

Music starts at 1. Step It Up N Go is on first.

July 4, 2023 concert in Ashland, Oregon

Posted on July 4th, 2023 under only in ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, Eight Dollar Mountain, green show, Nikon Nikkor Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S Lens for Z Mount, Nikon Z 6II FX-Format Mirrorless Camera z6ii, oregon shakespeare festival, step it up and go. Comments Off on Eight Dollar Mountain

Four-handed Lief Sorbye of Tempest (June 21, 2023)

#TempestCelticRock @sorbye @osfashland

Posted on June 25th, 2023 under only in ashland, people. Tags: concert photography, green show, Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR Lens, Nikon Z 50, oregon shakespeare festival, tempest. Comments Off on Tempest @ OSF Green Show

Lower Duck Pond (November 2020)

The buildings in the background are part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Posted on January 10th, 2021 under lithia park, nature, only in ashland, photography, places. Tags: autumn, landscape, lithia park, NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50, oregon shakespeare festival. Comments Off on Selfies in Lithia Park during autumn

@KaliSullivan8

Today’s photo is from an OSF Green Show five and a half years ago. I don’t think I saw a single Green Show this year for the first time since moving to Ashland in 2000. I need to see more in 2020.

Posted on December 12th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: danceworks, green show, oregon shakespeare festival. Comments Off on Throwback Thursday

@osfashland

OSF’s Green Show happens four nights a week, Wednesdays through Saturdays, at 6:45 p.m. beginning today through October. Full schedule is available here.

Posted on June 7th, 2019 under only in ashland, people. Tags: danceworks, green show, Nikon 300mm f/4.0D ED-IF AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, oregon shakespeare festival. Comments Off on Green Show season begins

Snowy day in Ashland, Oregon (February 2011)

Posted on December 6th, 2018 under only in ashland. Tags: ashland springs hotel, lx3, oregon shakespeare festival, snow, winter. Comments Off on Throwback Thursday

Oregon Shakespeare Festival from Lithia Park on a winter day (Ashland, Oregon)

@osfashland

Today’s photo is from February of 2011.

Posted on November 20th, 2018 under lithia park, only in ashland. Tags: lithia park, lx3, oregon shakespeare festival, snow, winter. Comments Off on OSF Elizabethan Theatre in the snow

Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, Oregon)

@osfashland @scottneurosis

Today’s photo is from the last time I saw a play in the outdoor Elizabethan Theatre (which is now closed until next year). I went mainly to see Scott Kelly.

Posted on October 24th, 2017 under only in ashland. Tags: grizzly peak, oregon shakespeare festival. Comments Off on Welcome to OSF

Danforth Comins (Hamlet) and Scott Kelly (Gravedigger) in Ashland’s Elizabethan Theatre (Photo by Jenny Graham)

@osfashland @scottneurosis @Dee4th

You are down to just a dozen or so chances to catch Hamlet at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this year.

First off, I must admit that I’m not a fan of play going myself. I’ve been to 20 or so plays over the 16 years I’ve lived in Ashland. I typically go only because my arm has been twisted and the tickets are free. That’s not to say the quality of OSF isn’t excellent. It is. I’m just too ADD for sitting through long-winded plays that I usually don’t understand. I normally enjoy the first few minutes, taking in the set and hard work that went into the creation of such works, and then wish I were anywhere else doing anything else for most of the duration.

Such was not the case with Hamlet, which I saw this past Thursday evening and thoroughly enjoyed. A few things made Hamlet an exception to my general play-going experience. First, six or so guitars were the only thing visible on the stage before the show began. I think I have seen some of those guitars before. Second, Hamlet is more interesting to me than most of Shakespeare. (If you aren’t familiar with Hamlet, be sure become acquainted with it BEFORE seeing the live performance.) Third, Comins was excellent as Hamlet. Finally, Scott Kelly.

My only complaint is I wish there was a bit more of Scott Kelly in the performance. Sure he was visible 95% of the time, but I wish he was doing his thing most of the time. During the standing ovation, I thought it was pretty cool that Neurosis’s “Zero” was playing. Was I the only one there that realized this fact? Probably.

A few tickets remain to the final performances, including some for as little as $30.

P.S. To the powers that be at OSF,

I would love to shoot one of these final performances. I can do it without flash like a fly on the wall. No one in the audience will even know I am there. I think I can come up with some amazing photos (especially without a moon like this past Thursday night). Imagine something like this or this with a sky full of stars like this. Hit me up.

Posted on August 28th, 2016 under only in ashland, people. Tags: oregon shakespeare festival. Comments Off on Hamlet @ OSF