Ever wonder why there are so many windows in an airport? When you are lounging in one of those comfortable seats at your designated gate (A8) with 963 other people, questions come to mind. Will my flight be late? Will I get a cold on the jet? Who designs those [...]
What can best be described as an incredible summer, the Petaluma National Little League All-Stars baseball season has come to an end. Oh sure, there will be travel and fall ball, but the team that traveled to South Williamsport for the Little League World Series is one for the record [...]
Since I am forced to sit in an airline seat for the next five hours and consume questionable airline food, I will blog. What is it with the captain of the airplane? Not their skills you know, but their voice over the intercom. This is what you are supposed to [...]
Looking out on a portal of parched landscape 34 thousand feet above Nevada, I travel east for my fifth World Series. Mind you, this is unlike any World Series I've covered for the Press Democrat. Major League Baseball may call their version of the fall classic a World Series, [...]
Just another day in Sonoma County in search of another angle on the possible rise in gas prices due to the Chevron Petroleum Fire (among other circumstances) in Richmond Monday evening. This led me to the Arco gas station on Brookwood Ave. and Fourth Street in Santa Rosa where I [...]
Mid-summer and everything is all right. A summer sunset with a nearly full moon, Tuesday night.
Just south of Sebastopol, Volkerts Road was a little smoky on Wednesday as a brush fire came close to several homes in the area. Firefighters and homeowners combined to stop the fire before it reached any structures. -Kent Porter
It's not very often you find a one of a kind feature photograph. I judge great feature photographs as an uncommon event, something unusual that happens during a common occurence. When cruising for a feature photograph, I drive through areas that might make a nice backdrop with plenty of people [...]
Ever get the feeling you're part of a broader bird conspiracy? Is it my imagination that nature has us in the crosshairs most of the time?e Sometimes I wonder..... -Kent Porter
I'm quite happy that we cover a huge area for the Press Democrat. PD photographers cover Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino and Napa Counties routinely. We also travel to points south on occasion, as well as to Humboldt County. That being said, we are at the mercy of the car gods. I [...]
How many frames in a photojournalists life? Millions. Literally.
I’ve lost count since I started shooting photos at eight years-old with a Polaroid Land Camera (which I still own). It’s a way of life this photojournalism thing which is endlessly fascinating. The trip along the way, now in my 31st year professionally and the last 25 with the Press Democrat, has been an adventure in life. What it has to offer, ranging from implausible beauty to the utterly cruel things life randomly pitches out have shaped and molded who I am. That means I get to witness history. Pretty cool, eh? This journey has included photographing lots of inanimate objects which can be terribly boring. I’ve also borne the brunt of people unhappy to see a photographer show up to document less than pleasant circumstances. Then there’s the weather, which wreaks havoc on the human race daily. So I document the clouds. My advice for anyone having a bad day is to go outside and take a picture of those clouds once in awhile. It will do wonders for the interior beast. Unless you are using a metal tripod in an electrical storm.
-Kent Porter