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Shooting at Matt Court

Shooting at Matt Court

Today is my first time in the newest Pac-10 basketball venue. Matthew Knight Arena, which was built at the 12,541 seat arena built along Franklin Boulevard south of campus. The floor was designed by Halsey native and Central Linn High School graduate Tinker Hatfield. It is called  “Deep in the...
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Duck fans traveling to Glendale

If you are heading to the national championship game I would love to contact you. You can email me at mark.ylen@lee.net. Tell me when you are getting into the Phoenix area, what events you are attending, where you are from and if you cold give me a contact number. Thanks, Mark

The Ducks’ Will Murphy

For those in the Democrat-Herald and Gazette-Times readership this morning’s sports sections featured a story on West Albany graduate Will Murphy. Here is a link to that story. Below, I added a few more photos of Murphy that I took this season while covering the Ducks.

Ducks BCS Uniforms

One of the few times on this photo blog that I will not be sharing my work. I thought I’d post the BCS uniform that Oregon will be wearing on January 10.  The photo came from Nike. I will also share a composite with TCU, Boise State and Florida.

Photo Reprints

I seem to get several calls a week from readers wanting reprints of photos we’ve shot in Albany and Corvallis.  By far high school sports and graduation day photos seem to be the most ordered.  Currently we have a 25 percent off offer for photo reprints through Christmas and New Year.  Here is a link...

The Ducks Post Game Celebration

When is it too early to douse the coach?  While hanging out behind the Oregon bench on Saturday I joined the herd of photographers stalking Coach Kelly as Duck receivers D.J. Davis (serving as a blocker) with Josh Huff and Justin Hoffman snuck up behind the head coach with a larger cooler filled with ice-cold...

Beavers and Cobras

In Cliff Kirkpatricks blog this morning, he sees West Albany’s Colby Prince as the starting tight end when Oregon State opens their spring camp. Last night I photographed the 2A matchup of No. 4 Central Linn vs No. 5 Days Creek in high school basketball. I will also attach a link to the photo galleries...

Mark Ylen Blog – Coming Soon!

Mark has been a photojournalist for the Albany Democrat-Herald since September of 1995. In his 20-year career he has worked for papers in both Oregon and California. He has won numerous awards for his photography including the 1995 Best Magazine Sports Action Photo in the prestigious Pictures of the Year national competition. A native of...

Welcome to my photo blog

Welcome to my blog. I would like to start by showing you our photo galleries from the Oregon Ducks’ 12-0 regular season.