Colon cancer. It's really not a laughing matter. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of death due to cancer for men and women combined. Nearly 50,000 people die every year in the United States, according to About.com. Colorectal cancer is the most common but most preventable cancer. Last Saturday, [...]
I've been here and there. Mostly there and not a lot of time to post. But I am shooting photos, some of which are for Santa Rosa and Savor Magazines. You'll have to wait another few weeks to see those. Here are a few from the last week or so. [...]
It really did snow on Friday. My trusty company Honda and I, nearly 200,000 miles old, rattled up Pine Mountain Road above Cloverdale to find actual snow from the Enviso Snow Event. It was very pretty. At least I found a snow picture. Easy peasy. Then, because it [...]
Where's Waldo? Where's the snow? Not anywhere here in the flats of Sonoma County. Beside the random flurry of graupel on Friday, snow was hard to find anywhere (except above 1,700 feet or so) here in SR. Sure, what fell could be considered snow, but really, the slang for what [...]
It was too good to last. Spring has a way of teasing us in the middle of winter, enticing those flowering trees and fooling all of us in to thinking we somehow circumvented winter. Nope. Winter still has a firm grip on the northern hemisphere, in fact, March 20 is [...]
Allen Sovory II hadn't been back to Sonoma County in nearly 15 years since attending Rio Lindo Academy in Healdsburg. Sovory, from southern California, is a singer-songwriter whose songs have been used in a number of movies, including The Fan; Jason's Lyric; Blue Crush; The Sixth Man and American Wedding. [...]
January, the uneventful month. Except if you like warm days with nary a rain drop. Photographically for me, it was kind of slow. A small vacation, working the photo desk and finishing up contest entries took most of my time. It never stays slow for too long, though. During the [...]
The weather geek that I am, I was scrolling through my usual sites this evening landing on the watch and warning page for the National Weather Service which looks like a roadmap of ice. Take a look at this link. I don't think Punxsutawney Phil is going to be seeing his [...]
Quick note tonight...The RAWS reading at Hawkeye near the Geysers as of 9pm, recorded a temperature of 67 degrees, the RH is 9% and the wind is out of the NE gusting to 28mph. If it were summer, these readings would be very close to fire weather conditions. January. Go [...]
In December 2010, Santa Rosa received nearly 9.8 inches of rain. January has been a different story. Depending on what part of Sonoma County you inhabit, this months rainfall total is currently on the low side of meager. Santa Rosa has received just .98 inches since the start of our [...]
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