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Ashland house with Halloween decorations

Pumpkin in front of Ashland home on the corner of Pioneer and B Streetss

I had breakfast at Ruby’s a few days ago, followed by a walk through Ruby’s neighborhood.

This is one of my favorite houses in town. There are so many details on this house and the property that you can stare at it for hours and still discover new things. Maybe I’ll show you some different angles in future entries. I wanted to get today’s posted while we are still in the Halloween season.

Posted on October 23rd, 2011 under only in ashland, places. Tags: halloween, houses, Tamron 10-24mm lens. Comments: 1

Birch trees in the fall

Birch trees on Ridge Road in Ashland, Oregon in autumn

I went for a fall photo shoot in Lithia Park on Sunday. Most trees aren’t at their peak yet, but some are. On my way home, as I headed down Ridge Rd., I looked up at the above birches trying unsuccessfully to completely block out the blue sky. I get a bit nostalgic around birch trees as we had three in my front yard as I was growing up.

Posted on October 18th, 2011 under nature, only in ashland. Tags: autumn, leaves, Tamron 10-24mm lens, trees. Comments Off on Birch trees in the fall

Moon halo over Mt. Ashland

Lunar halo above Mt. Ashland, Oregon with Jupiter in the ring

EXIF data for this photo is:
Nikon D7000 camera body
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 lens
15 seconds
f/8
ISO-800
10mm

Posted on October 17th, 2011 under nature, places. Tags: moon, mt. ashland, night photography, Tamron 10-24mm lens. Comments Off on Moon halo over Mt. Ashland

Ashland, Oregon sunset

Ashland sunset

Had some interesting clouds the other day so I decided to head over to the other side of the freeway with my camera, new ultra wide-angle lens, and tripod to see what kind of sunset would be offered up. It was a good one!

Posted on September 15th, 2011 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: landscape, mt. ashland, nikon d7000, sunset, Tamron 10-24mm lens. Comments Off on Ashland, Oregon sunset

Wagner Butte Hike (6 of 7)

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Wildflowers on Wagner Butte hike

For today’s first photo I decided to have some fun with my new ultra wide-angle lens. At f/3.5 (the lowest f stop I can go with it), 10mm, and getting as close to the flower and still being able to focus as I can, the results are intriguing.

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View from Wagner Butte Trail

Butterfly lands on yellow wildflower

With lots of wildflowers come lots of butterflies. I’m digging the macro capabilities and nice bokeh with my new lens.

Posted on September 11th, 2011 under nature. Tags: flowers, hike, nikon d7000, photography, Tamron 10-24mm lens, wagner butte. Comments Off on Wagner Butte Hike (6 of 7)

Wagner Butte Hiking (5 of 7)

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View of Pilot Rock and Mount Ashland from the top of Wagner Butte

The top photo today is about as wide a picture as you can get from the top of Wagner Butte. I had my ultra wide-angle lens on my Nikon D7000 and shot this at 10mm. Pilot Rock and Mt. Ashland look very far away, but they wouldn’t if I was shooting at, say, 50mm or even 24mm.

Most days in Ashland’s summer feature no clouds at all. The sky usually isn’t this blue either as forest fires in Northern California or Southern Oregon tend to give the sky a gray haze. However, I got pretty lucky on this day to have bluer than normal skies and some clouds as an added bonus. About 3 hours after I took the above photo we had a brief thunder and lightning storm.

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Wagner Butte, Jackson County, Oregon

The foundation for the lookout that was here until the 1970s is all that remains on Wagner Butte. There looked to be a rusted sink or something too. I didn’t get too close to it as there was a tornado of bugs swirling above.

Medford is in this direction, a bit to the right.

Posted on September 10th, 2011 under nature, only in ashland, places. Tags: aerial, hike, mt. ashland, pilot rock, Tamron 10-24mm lens, wagner butte. Comments Off on Wagner Butte Hiking (5 of 7)

Wagner Butte Hike (4 of 7)

As a hiker approaches the top of Wagner Butte the scene changes again. Instead of forest, desert, wildflower-covered field, or grassy meadow there are a few rocks to climb (not difficult) to get to the top.

I have never seen a dandelion seed head this big before. I should have put a finger in the photo to give the viewer a point of reference. Usually they are smaller than a golf ball, but this one (and the others in the field on the Wagner Butte trail) was bigger than my fist.

The sign on the top of Wagner Butte has been there for probably a couple decades now. The elements have not been kind, and it is now barely readable.

Posted on September 9th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: flowers, hike, nikon d7000, signs, Tamron 10-24mm lens, wagner butte. Comments: 1

Wagner Butte (3 of 7)

Looking west (and maybe a bit south) from the western slopes of Wagner Butte yields the above view which is probably Little Applegate in the foreground. I’m not sure what mountain ranges go beyond that.

As I mentioned yesterday, sometimes the landscape can get a bit desert like; however, frequently there are wildflowers right in the middle of these scenes. I wonder how different this view would be in the morning (or a month or two earlier). I took this photo in the late afternoon in early September.

Along the Wagner Butte trail you cross a dozen or so streams. This late in the year they were mostly a trickle of water, but in spring, or while it is raining, I imagine they can be somewhat tricky to cross. This one was probably twenty feet across of mud in early September so crossing over via the log helped to keep shoes from becoming a mess even without a small river coming down the mountainside.

My new 10-24mm lens can do some pretty cool things in the macro photography world, nice bokeh too. I was surprised how close I could get and still focus. The specs said the minimum focus distance was 9.5 inches, but I was less than that far away on this photo (and even closer on some others I’ll show you in the next few days). My other lens really does require a distance between the end of the lens and the focus subject of at least a foot and a half.

This flower probably looked much better a week or two earlier in the year. I’d like to do this hike in, say, July and then again in September of the same year to compare the wildflowers. Do some last all summer long or are there totally different wildflowers blossoming and dying as the summer progresses?

Posted on September 8th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland, places. Tags: flowers, hike, photography, Tamron 10-24mm lens, wagner butte. Comments Off on Wagner Butte (3 of 7)

Wagner Butte Hike week

Sunday I hiked the Wagner Butte Trail for the fourth time. This was only the second time I made it to the top. My first two attempts were with my kids when they were little so we only went for a mile or two. The entire hike is over 10 miles and includes climbing (and then descending) over 2,200 feet.

I brought along my new lens (Tamron SP AF 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 DI II Lens) so I have far more than a week’s worth of photography for you. I’ll post several images a day and save some for later. For today, I’ll just explain how to get there (and post some rather uninteresting images that may help in orientation) as most guide books and internet sites give incomplete and/or erroneous directions.

Wagner Butte Trail begins southwest of Ashland. However, to get there, you need to go through Talent (to the northwest of Ashland). You can also get there from the top of Mt. Ashland, but most people are coming from other places in the Rogue Valley, making the Talent route easier.

From Highway 99 (Pacific Highway) turn onto Rapp Road which will eventually turn into Wagner Creek Road. Follow Wagner Creek Road all the way out. When Wagner Creek Road turns into a dirt road, at a point crossing the creek, check your odometer. You will find the trail head 6.1 miles from this point. Continue on Wagner Creek Rd. It forks several times. Stay on the most developed road (usually a left at the forks). At mile 4 since you started on the dirt road you will find a cattle guard. Cross it and go left at the fork immediately in front of you. Only two more miles until the trail begins. At 6.1 miles you will see the sign in the first photo if you are traveling slowly enough and look to your left. Pull into the parking lot on your right, pictured above.

The most difficult part of Wagner Butte Trail is the first (and last) mile as it is fairly steep.

Bring lots of water. I brought 40 oz., and it wasn’t nearly enough. I could have used 80 ounces, but it was a warm/hot day. If the weather forecast in Ashland/Medford is for 80 degrees or more, bring at least 2 liters of water per person. Note that it won’t be as hot as Ashland or Medford at this altitude, but it will feel warmer than Ashland or Medford on the way up since you will be climbing. Bring a jacket for the way down if the forecast is for 70 degrees or less in Ashland/Medford.

Posted on September 6th, 2011 under nature, places. Tags: hike, signs, Tamron 10-24mm lens, wagner butte. Comments Off on Wagner Butte Hike week