Sarah Holgen with the kill for the Raiders

SOU vs. College of Idaho Volleyball

Angela Spieker with the backwards set for SOU

Sarah Holgen prepares for the dig

Southern Oregon University volleyball team celebrate a point

Megan Bartling with the kill for SOU

Angela Spieker prepares to set another

SOU celebrates a win in set 3 to move to 1-2 at that point in the evening.

Natalie Scheller goes for the block. #3 on College of Idaho was relentless.

Tonight I watched one of the most exciting volleyball matches imaginable. The first set was close. SOU had the lead until late, but they ended up losing a close one. The second set was dominated by College of Idaho, and it looked like this would be a quick evening. The College of Idaho, BTW, was undefeated in league play going into tonight’s match up and had already defeated the Raiders at home earlier in the season. But then things got interesting…

The Lady Raiders won the third and fourth sets to force a deciding fifth set. I will tell you what the final result was in part 3. Suffice it to say, it was VERY close.

Posted on November 4th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Southern Oregon University, volleyball. Comments Off on SOU vs. College of Idaho volleyball (part 1 of 3)

Caryn Westrick sets the volleyball for Southern Oregon University

Freeze the perfect moment in a volleyball match and the perfect set looks an awful lot like a carry. 😉

Posted on October 13th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Southern Oregon University, volleyball. Comments Off on The set

A lighter moment at a recent Ashland Middle School volleyball game

Posted on October 8th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ellie, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland Middle School volleyball

Megan Bartling and Natalie Scheller - Southern Oregon University Volleyball

This is how you block in volleyball.

Haley Fikso with the kill

It doesn’t always work out the way you planned.

Posted on September 29th, 2011 under people. Tags: Southern Oregon University, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball blocking – success or not

Sarah Holgen goes for the kill

Classes begin at Southern Oregon University on Monday, but the fall sports are already well underway. Today’s photo is a scene from last night’s volleyball victory at the SOU McNeil Pavilion.

I tried out my new 80-200mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens and am happy with the results.

Posted on September 24th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: nikon 80-200mm f/2.8, sarah holgen, Southern Oregon University, volleyball. Comments Off on SOU Volleyball’s Sarah Holgen

AMS volleyball game

Been watching a lot of volleyball the past week…

Posted on September 22nd, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: ellie, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland Middle School volleyball

Southern Oregon University Women's Volleyball

I took this on 9/10/11. Next home game for the Lady Raiders is 9/23. I’m hoping the lens I have purchased since I took today’s photo (Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8D) will allow me to take a shot like this with less blur. I took this with settings of f/4.5 and 1/200 of a second (ISO 1600) with my 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 Nikkor lens in poor, indoor, gymnasium lighting. With my new lens I should be able to do something like f/2.8 and 1/320 with better results. Stay tuned.

Posted on September 14th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: nikon 18-200mm vr ii, nikon d7000, photography, Raider Athletics, Southern Oregon University, volleyball. Comments Off on Liz Madden with a kill for SOU volleyball

I picked up a few lenses for my Nikon on Craigslist at a great price. I’m not sure if I will keep them forever, but it’s nice to know that I can sell them for more than I bought them for. The one I used for this photo was a Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED Telephoto Zoom Lens. The lens is great for outdoor sports photography. However, it doesn’t fit in my bag (with the lens hood on anyway), and 70mm is too telephoto to make this lens at all versatile. The 300mm zoom isn’t that much of a difference from the telephoto end of my 18-200mm so I don’t see myself using this lens much. Still, it delivers nice sharpness and bokeh for scenes like the above. By the way, I took this photo at Garfield Park in Ashland.

Posted on July 17th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: Nikkor 70-300mm VR, nikon d7000, photography, volleyball. Comments: 1

Garfield Park has a couple of sand volleyball courts. Ellie and her friends are enjoying their daily, after-school workouts.

Posted on April 12th, 2011 under only in ashland, people, places. Tags: ellie, volleyball. Comments Off on Beach volleyball in Ashland