Light the way
Pick up a camera and follow the light of the day. Morning, afternoon and night. The light will guide you. -Kent Porter
Hello feet, it’s Parade Season
Spring. Parade Season. Lets face it, I've photographed more parades than I can actually remember. My feet tremble this time of year. It's a lot of walkin' bro. It all started with the Lucerne Alpine Day's Parade in 1981 and then some sort of parade the next weekend in Lakeport. [...]
Attack of the giant poppies!
Co-photog Christopher Chung calls it the "Attack of the giant poppies!" We both chuckled. You can see that a wide angle lens distorted the size of our State flower. I shot this way on purpose, in order to frame people between flowers and make a different Spring / Earth Day [...]
Hey, It’s just who we are!
It was my turn to work this past Sunday. When you're the only photog working on Sunday, it can get hairy. After a day of driving nearly 150 miles around Sonoma County, my last assignment was to shoot Sebastopol's Earth Day Celebration. I always expect something a little different in [...]
Same time last year
What a difference a year makes, eh? Last year on this date Santa Rosa's high temperature was nearly 94 degrees. On the 21st, SR topped out at 91. The fog kicked in on the 22nd, when the high was only 77. The average temperature for SR's April should be 70 [...]
Goose warrior
Reporter Bob Norberg and I traveled to Ft. Bragg the other day to report about Bruce Abernathy and his boat graveyard on the shores of the Noyo River. Finding a place to park on Abernathy's land, we were warned to be wary of THE geese from a woman who rented [...]
Reservoir cup runneth over
Boy, what a difference an El Nino makes. El Nino, the warming of ocean waters in the Equatorial Pacific, can wreak havoc on California weather. The current El Nino was classified as a moderate event by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Although we've had some gully washers this [...]
Strange Day
While traveling by car through Tucson, Arizona on my way back east 25 years ago, the sun was just rising while I was cruising along I-10. Just like that, I came upon a military aircraft that had made an emergency landing in the median. I never shot any pictures of [...]
Hail, hail, hail
The picture in the Press Democrat this morning of hail that dropped from Sunday nights storm was impressive...for the North Coast. Rarely do we get that size here. I guess it could be considered nearing golf ball size hail. For once I didn't chase the storm (ever photographed lightning in [...]
Imagination
Yesterday I covered the Friends of the Petaluma River Tom Sawyer Days on the, um...Petaluma River. Lots of kids running around building rafts, putting said rafts in to the river. That was kind of neat. Growing up on a lake afforded my friends and I endless adventures, building rafts, camping, [...]
