Posted on May 20th, 2022 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D500, people, portraits. Comments Off on Six years ago today…

Posted on November 19th, 2021 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: beatty, Nikon 24-120mm f/4G ED AF-S VR, Nikon D750, people, portraits. Comments Off on At the pond

Model in Lithia Park

Today’s photo comes from a photo shoot I did just under a year ago for sohana.co.

Posted on March 22nd, 2016 under lithia park, only in ashland, people. Tags: lithia park, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, people, sohana.co. Comments Off on Lithia Park bridge

Sydney Paulsen of the SOU Women’s Soccer Team

Today’s photo is from the 3-0 victory over Simpson this past Sunday in Ashland.

Posted on September 12th, 2013 under people. Tags: Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D600, people, soccer, Southern Oregon University, sports, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU Women’s Soccer playing at The Master’s College today

SOU graduates listen to commencement speaker Dr. William Cook

SOU faculty from the School of Business arrive at graduation

SOU faculty tent

Last shot of the day featuring the cap throwing at the end of commencement (more photos to come in a couple weeks)

Posted on June 17th, 2012 under only in ashland, people. Tags: campus, commencement, nikon d7000, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University Commencement 2012 (part 2)

Brandon McCarthy held Miguel Cabrera hitless last Saturday evening in Oakland. It isn’t often that Cabrera goes without a hit and strikes out twice. This is a guy who got on base 45% of the time last season and has finished in the top five of the AL MVP voting each of the past three years. But McCarthy had Cabrera checking his swing on several occasions. Cabrera didn’t like the strike call on one of his check swings and let the umpire know it. We could hear Cabrera still cussing all the way from the stands while Cabrera was getting ready to play defense the next inning.

How are your lip reading skills?

Posted on May 16th, 2012 under outside of ashland, people. Tags: AF-S Teleconverter TC-17E 1.7X II for Nikon, baseball, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, people, sports. Comments Off on Miguel Cabrera

Brandi Carlile opened for Ray LaMontagne a few nights back at the Britt Festival. Although Ray was kind enough to provide me with a photo pass (as photography isn’t allowed at Britt without one), it (and all of the photo passes issued that evening) had the stipulation that photos could only be taken from this one spot (which was obviously far from the stage and only capable of capturing Ray’s backside or occasional profile).

One good thing about this vantage point is it can give you a good shot of the crowd too (with a wide angle lens).

I used my new 50mm 1.8 for this second shot. I think I could have gotten some great shots with it from my seat down front in what became lower light later, but I didn’t get to test out that possibility due to the rules.

Finally, at the maximum zoom in my bag (200mm), here is as close as I could get. The possibilities weren’t very numerous from a fixed point with a band that doesn’t move around or change expressions much, but I still had a great time and Ray and the Pariah Dogs sounded great.

I’ll give you more variety from Brandi here soon.

Posted on June 25th, 2011 under outside of ashland, people, places. Tags: britt festivals, jacksonville, music, people, photography. Comments: 1

I have a bunch more photos, but only three videos, so this will wrap up On Ensemble at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Green Show for now. The guys seemed to be having a really good time performing. Shoji Kameda, above, was laughing while playing at this point in the show.

This last video I took with my new 50mm lens. Hence, there is no zooming in and out. I don’t see any improvement in quality vs. my 18-200mm lens, but if the lighting wasn’t as good this lens may have been a better a choice. Actually, with the VR (vibration reduction) on the 18-200mm lens (since these were hand held videos) I think the 18-200mm VR provides a better image (in addition to the versatility) for video in good lighting.

Posted on June 14th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: green show, music, oregon shakespeare festival, people, photography, video. Comments Off on On Ensemble (part 3 of 3)

a loooooooooooong line of SOU graduates

Part 1 is here. You can click on any of these images for a larger view. From there you can right click a picture to save it.

Dennis and Rene

Math professors...

This was the first year that professors formed a gauntlet since commencement moved from Lithia Park in 2003. I thought we should have done the tunnel like at kids' soccer games, but Dennis opted for low fives instead.

I think this is the first year that students (half of them anyway) marched in in front of the grand stands.

Perhaps you are in there?

Some SOU international students...

Soon-to-be grads sipping coffee and chatting on the phone while walking in the procession...

SOU professor gauntlet

SOU Business students

I couldn't see the stage so I got to watch the new grads watch the speaker.

Bill Rauch, of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, was the main speaker at 2011 Commencement. He must have said something funny at this point.

Tassles on the right until graduated...

This SOU graduate appears to be heading to UW for graduate work in chemistry.

This graduate grabbed a photo of the crowd just before her name was read.

After an hour or so of names being read, I amused myself with photos of graduation cap decoration ideas.

SOU School of Business faculty

I finally made it into a photo. I think Rene just wanted to try out my camera.

At long last, SOU's School of Business students approach the stage.

Funny story... Actually, look at this photo long and hard to see if you can see what is "funny" about it first.

Did you see it?

Someone's camera got in the way of the guy's hands on the far right. When I tried to remove the camera from the photo in Photoshop, Photoshop was "smart" enough to realize that hands were missing so it substituted the other guy's hands in the far right guy's "hand place" too. I would have just undone it and left it with the camera blocking the lower right portion of the photo, but I thought this looked too funny to not keep.

Jayne was one of my accounting students...

Sachta Bakshi

Susan gives Alisha a hug proving that accountants are very personable.

You can watch some of Wenjun’s Senior Recital here.

Yeah baby!

The faculty were allowed to exit before everyone else, giving us first crack at the cookies placed in the end zone.

Posted on June 11th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: commencement, dennis slattery, grizzly peak, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University Graduation Photos (part 2 of 2)