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

In middle school my daughter was asked to list three possible careers. One she chose was “professional volleyball player.” I must admit that, in this photo anyway, she shows pretty good form and height for a 12-year old.

Posted on March 18th, 2011 under people. Tags: ellie, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball warmups

Yesterday was the last tournament of the season for mOcean volleyball. This one was held at the North Medford High School gym, home of the Black Tornado. My bum is ready to rejoice for not having to sit on a hard, bleacher seat for hours on end any longer.

Posted on March 7th, 2011 under outside of ashland, people, places. Tags: ellie, medford, volleyball. Comments Off on End of volleyball season

I have spent the past two Saturday’s in the Old South Medford High School Gym watching volleyball. The girls have fun playing numerous games in one day, but sitting on a hard, wood bleacher seat for 6+ hours is more painful than fun.

Ellie is still 12, but she is tall enough to block the ball. No one is tall enough to block the ball you see in this picture though.

Posted on February 6th, 2011 under people. Tags: ellie, sports, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland’s mOcean Volleyball Club

Volleyball at the local YMCA this morning…

Posted on November 20th, 2010 under people. Tags: ellie, sports, volleyball. Comments Off on Volleyball

SOU’s volleyball team rolled to another victory Friday night. The win over Concordia University (from Portland, Oregon) pushed them to 11-1 in conference play (12-1 after winning on Saturday night too). While fun to watch, it wasn’t very exciting as the Concordia team didn’t seem to have much of a chance.

Posted on October 18th, 2010 under people, places. Tags: Southern Oregon University, sports, volleyball. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University Women’s Volleyball

Some youth volleyball action at the Ashland YMCA

Posted on November 16th, 2008 under people. Tags: ellie, people, sports, volleyball. Comments: 1

In the second round of the state playoffs Ashland beat the third ranked team from Pendleton to advance to the next round. Last year they took third in the state. Can they go all the way like they did in 2005?

Posted on November 6th, 2008 under people. Tags: ashland high school, people, sports, volleyball. Comments Off on Ashland High School Volleyball