I was playing around with the modes on my LX3 on my bike ride the other day around Lithia Park. By flipping the switch to SCN and then choosing “Hi Speed Burst” I was able to take six pictures per second. You lose a lot of quality in so doing, but the pictures aren’t bad if you are in good lighting and close to your target. In this series I wasn’t close enough.

Check out the fun you can have with putting these pictures together backwards with a program like Windows Movie Maker.

Reverse motion movie

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 under lithia park, only in ashland, people. Tags: lithia park, lx3, people, video, water. Comments: 1

I still haven’t figured out how to use WordPress’s gallery feature very well. I was hoping that when you clicked on one of the above images you’d get a large image and be able to navigate to the next picture. You can’t, unfortunately. You can get a large image if you click the picture and then click it again on the next page though.

After attending eight straight SOU graduations, I’m going to miss next year’s commencement since I will be out of the country. I think already missing next year caused me to take more pictures than normal this year. 😉

Pictures from Southern Oregon University’s 2008 graduation ceremony can be seen here.

Posted on June 13th, 2009 under only in ashland, people. Tags: clouds, commencement, grizzly peak, mountains, people, skywatch, Southern Oregon University. Comments: 2

For some unknown reason our showshoe guide took us away from Crater Lake. Sure the views were still fantastic, like the one above of the Klamath Basin, but I hadn’t seen Crater Lake in nearly ten years. I had never seen it with snow or with the wicked, cool blue and cloudy sky that was now appearing.

I was dying inside, wanting to break from my field trip group to see the lake. But I performed my fatherly and chaperone duties and stuck with the group. I hoped the weather wouldn’t change before getting to the lake. Stay tuned to see if it did…

Posted on June 9th, 2009 under nature, places. Tags: clouds, crater lake, people, skywatch, snow, winter. Comments Off on Klamath Basin from Crater Lake

One of the nice things about having a son who likes to act is the lack of competition. Four boys tried out compared to 20+ girls. Needless to say, almost half the girls play male roles and my son gets lots of lines.

Posted on May 20th, 2009 under people. Tags: ashland middle school, people, plays. Comments Off on Twentieth Century Broadway

A few weeks back the Ashland Middle School put on a play called “Twentieth Century Broadway” which was actually about five mini-plays including The Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, Hair, and others. It was a musical.

I’ll post some more photos from the show tomorrow.

Posted on May 19th, 2009 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ashland middle school, people, plays. Comments: 2

Let’s wrap of a week of photographs from SOU’s International Show with several pictures from the International Fashion Show that took place at the end of the program.

The above picture is of Ixel, a former student of mine who ran the show (and got my kids and I in). As it turns out Ixel is not only a fantastic student and athlete, but she can also moonlight as a runway model to boot.

Posted on May 15th, 2009 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on International Fashion Show (7 of 7)

Tiazza is another former student of mine. (Why is it that accounting majors show up in SOU’s International Show so often doing something so completely different than accounting?)

Posted on May 14th, 2009 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Belly Dancers (6 of 7)

I’m looking forward to hearing Taiko drums on Japanese soil in a few months. This was the next best thing to being there.

Posted on May 13th, 2009 under people. Tags: drums, international show, music, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Japan – Taiko Drumming (5 of 7)

Neeta Singh represented India at the show. Neeta is a former student of mine who I think is back at SOU getting a master’s degree in a different subject.

Posted on May 12th, 2009 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on India (4 of 7)