This photo looks a lot better upside down. I mean rightside up. I mean... Oh crud, you get the picture. It was published on the web this way... Obviously seeing his face makes the picture, which is easier to see upside down. -Kent Porter
How many parades? I've lost the count on the number of times I've ambled alongside the Luther Burbank Rose Parade. Each year tends to be a little different. Some years, colors of the Rose Parade are subdued, other times it's awash in the spectrum of light. Luckily, the 117th walking [...]
Things strike me funny once in awhile. While on assignment at Empire College on Friday May 20, a humorous scene presented itself. Teach on, Skeletor. -Kent Porter
The past few weeks for me have been spent in a small room with a mega fast computer and two computer screens. Cutting video. Video is fun, don't get me wrong. It makes you look at things on a moving scale, incorporating your style of shooting in to a cohesive [...]
Haven't posted in about a month. As is with new media these days, I've been buried in video production. Saturday is the Human Race, so if you are out at Slater Middle School in Santa Rosa early AM, look up from the starting line. It will most likely be me [...]
It's the unofficial start of parade season. The Occidental Fools Parade went off without a hitch in downtown Occidental Saturday afternoon. The seamless blending of happy hippies, geeks, thespians, wine country tourists and whoever else wanted to flaunt their Bay to Breakers paraphernalia, became a west county resident for an [...]
I was being a dad Saturday morning. My son was participating in the Mark West Youth Club Little League opening day ceremonies under partially threatening skies. As is the predictable case with me, camera was in hand to photograph and document his next step in growing up. Out of the [...]
March ended with an early season heat wave. About time, Mrs. Nature. Oh, but those couple 'o weeks of rain were gully washers. Old Man Winter, the husband of the Mrs., was going out kicking and screaming. Mother Earth wasn't giving up that easily, especially after we were teased with [...]
Last week I was on vacation. However, I didn't post. Here are a couple of photos from a Special Olympics basketball tournament held at SRJC on March 19. Joy seems to be the relative term. -Kent Porter
It's been a week of car mishaps in Santa Rosa. While we don't cover many accidents here at the PD, once in awhile there tends to be unusual circumstances which lead to a photo. Either that, or we're in the right place (unfortunately) at the right time. Here you go. [...]
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