@SOURaiders @SOU_Football

Piles of coffee table books documenting the 2014 SOU football team’s season arrived in the mail today. I decided to go captionless with the format rather than have words clutter up the pages. The only words are on the front and rear covers.

There are two versions of this book. The regular version is 33 full-color pages in length (plus front and rear cover photos) and includes about 40 different photos, most photos being in a large 8″ x 11″ format. Some of the photos have not been published anywhere before (or even been seen by anyone but me). Others are favorites that have been well received on the internet already (but many people haven’t seen them on anything other than their phones). These photos look much better in large print on high quality paper than on a small smart phone screen. The photos come from seven of the games during the Raiders 13-2 championship season and a few are from other events (like the parade in Ashland and activities in Daytona Beach).

The deluxe version is 43 full-color pages in length plus the front and rear covers. The deluxe version is a hard cover book which includes all of the photos from the regular version plus 10 more.

All profits from the sale of these books will go toward the SOU football program. Championship t-shirts are available through the link here.

P.S. Lots of you are emailing me asking to reserve books for you. I’m not selling the books. SOU is selling the books. Details here. Note that the regular version has sold out. There are a few deluxe versions left (as many more of them were ordered).

Posted on January 13th, 2015 under people, photography. Tags: football, NAIA National Championship Game Daytona Florida, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on 2014 NAIA National Football Champions photo book

SOU women’s basketball – Alexi Smith

Alexi Smith leads the Raiders with an average of more than 13 points per game to go along with more than 8 rebounds per game.

Posted on January 13th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Alexi Smith, basketball, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 24-70mm Di VC USD. Comments Off on Raiders move up to #14 in rankings

SOU men’s basketball -Ben DeSaulnier

@SOURaiders @SOU_WBB

Just some photos today from the past couple nights (when the Raiders went 4-0) that have been cropped elsewhere on the internet.

SOU women’s basketball – Courtney West

Southern Oregon University men’s basketball – Eric Thompson

Southern Oregon University women’s basketball – Ashley Claussen

Posted on January 11th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Ashley Claussen, basketball, courtney west, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon AF‑S Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G lens, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, Tamron SP 24-70mm Di VC USD, the whole picture. Comments Off on The Whole Picture (part 11)

2015 SOU Men’s Basketball Team

Good things are happening on the court at Southern Oregon University. Last night the Raiders swept the Geoducks. Be there tonight for the games against Northwest as the #16 women play at 5:30 and the #11 men play at 7:30.

Posted on January 10th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: basketball, joel spear, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, tim weber. Comments Off on Raider basketball

SOU wrestling – Dalton Urrutia

@SOUWrestling @SOURaiders @DaltonUrrutia

#3-ranked Dalton Urrutia and seven other Raider wrestlers defeated their Cumberland opponents this morning to move on to the quarterfinals where they are currently facing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The semifinals and championship rounds will happen tomorrow (1/10/15).

Some of you may have found your way here through the link on souraiders.com. I have had several people email me asking questions about buying prints or about finding all of my photos for a certain sport.

The photos I post here are a small fraction of the photos I actually have. If you would like to print any of the photos on this blog, you are welcome to do so at no charge. Be sure to click on the photo to get to the higher resolution size which will print with more quality. If you want to use them on the web (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.), you are welcome to do so if you link back to traveljapanblog.com/ashland with the photo or link back to the URL with source of the photo.

If you would like me to search through all of my photos and send you photos of the particular athlete you are looking for I charge a reasonable fee for the time it takes me to find all of those photos and to process them for you. I do not normally sell prints. I email you the high quality electronic files in .jpg format, and you can do the printing and framing yourself through a local or online service. You can also make photo books or do whatever you like with the pictures. My email is on this page.

To find all of my photos for a particular sport, use the following links. Click on “Older Entries” near the bottom-left of each page to view more photos.
football
basketball
softball
volleyball
soccer
wrestling
Track and Field – Coming in April 2015…

Posted on January 9th, 2015 under people. Tags: Dalton Urrutia, Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II, Nikon D750, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, wrestling. Comments Off on SOU wrestling @ NWCA National Duals

Women play at 5:30. Men play at 7:30.

Posted on January 9th, 2015 under only in ashland. Tags: Raider Athletics, SOU cheer dance, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on SOU basketball returns to Ashland tonight

@SOUWomensSoccer @SOURaiders @SOUWrestling

From the press release:

“Beginning in fall 2015, SOU will feature a men’s soccer team that will compete in the CCC and a women’s wrestling team to go along with the perennial power of a men’s squad.

SOU will join 198 other schools in the NAIA that already have men’s soccer. The eight-team CCC men’s soccer circuit hasn’t added a new member since Oregon Tech formed its program prior to the 2008 season, but will welcome the Raiders and Eastern Oregon’s start-up program in 2015.

“The women’s wrestling team will compete in the same tournaments as the men against women competitors from other colleges,” [Matt] Sayre said. “Women’s wrestling is a growing sport with more than 1,000 high school participants on the West Coast alone. This will be a great benefit to our University.””

Posted on January 8th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Raider Athletics, soccer, Southern Oregon University, sports photography, wrestling. Comments Off on SOU adds men’s soccer and women’s wrestling

Austin Dodge and Bubba Rylance

@SOURaiders @SOU_Football

You can now buy National Championship t-shirts online to benefit the SOU football program. Click here for details and to place your order.

P.S. My photos from the National Championship game have now begun spilling onto a third page. The three pages are here, here, and here.

Posted on January 8th, 2015 under people. Tags: austin dodge, 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 SOU National Championship shirts

SOU soccer scholar athlete – Elise De Jesse

@elisedejesse @SOUWomensSoccer @SOURaiders @SOUWrestling

As a member of the SOU faculty, nothing warms my heart more (other than maybe a national championship, go wrestling! get us another!) than scholar athletes. This past fall we had 13 of them. That’s right, not one or two but, 13 of them! Full details can be found here.

Posted on January 6th, 2015 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Raider Athletics, soccer, Southern Oregon University, sports photography. Comments Off on 13 NAIA SOU Scholar Athletes