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Crater Lake close up
Crater Lake clear
This isn’t the normal, “postcard” shot of Crater Lake, but sometimes you miss the trees for the forest when you look at Crater Lake only as a whole. The details are quite lovely as well as the big picture.
Moonrise on the Rogue River
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A couple weeks ago I posted a photo of the moon setting in the early hours over the Wild and Scenic portion of the Rogue River. Today’s photo is from two night’s prior when the moon wasn’t quite full. Also, I used a long exposure which meant no details on the moon like that prior photo.
Wildfire
National Creek Complex Wildfire
As mentioned yesterday, the Crescent fire and National fire have closed Highway 230, making it rather difficult to get from the Rogue Valley to Bend and other parts of Oregon. In addition the Boundary Springs Trail (and a few others) have been closed. Today’s photo is a closer view of the smoke outside the crater’s rim from inside on (8/12/15).
Panorama from Sinnott Memorial Overlook
8-photo photomerge of Crater Lake
Most of my students from the class I taught in Guanajuato, Mexico last year have come to Ashland, Oregon for a class at Southern Oregon University. Yesterday was an off day so we went to Crater Lake. The smoke visible on the left side of today’s photo is from a fire burning in Crater Lake National Park. Highway 230 is closed.
Between the madness
Day one of the 2015 Seaside Beach Volleyball Tournament was cloudy and/or foggy 99% of the time. Day two started out like this before some extreme wind and cloudiness hit. With about 120 courts and 1,500 participants, and growing every year, this tournament sets the record for the world’s largest sand volleyball tournament each year.
Unfortunately, the organizers are still doing most things the same way they have for years–manually. The brackets need to be automated and put online. As things stand, people have to do way too much walking to get to the boards to check for updates. In addition, courts sit empty while teams wait to play. In two days (from early morning until near dark), my daughter played a mere 4 sets. That’s right–sets, not matches. She gets more playing in a 5-set match at home (which can be accomplished in less than a couple hours) than she got in an entire two-day span.
That said, the non-junior divisions seemed to get more playing time. Teams not in the junior divisions typically got in about 10 sets over the two days.