Sunny one minute, cloudy the next.  Muggy to boot.  That means a photog needs to be quick and make a picture.  Another day at the Laguna de Santa Rosa. -Kent Porter

Egrets take to the sky over the Laguna de Santa Rosa. -Kent Porter

My father farmed the panhandle of Oklahoma way back in teens and the 20's of the 20th century. Our family raised wheat and corn, but wheat was the mainstay.  He would tell of stories of dawn 'till dusk farming and the exceptionally hard existence of beating the odds on the [...]

Loamy soil deposited from rains along the Laguna de Santa Rosa, mean perfect growing conditions at R. Castañeda Farms off Guerneville Road in Santa Rosa. Workers were busy picking late summer / early fall green zucchini and Mediterranean squash early Thursday morning Sept. 26.  In an area that easily sees five [...]

At the Aggio dairy farm on the Laguna de Santa Rosa, this holstein was a little curious about the human with a camera. Title of the picture? Guard Cow.   -Kent Porter  

Enthusiastic I was to photograph the Laguna de Santa Rosa every day, turns out I need a little down time now and then.  So I'm human. Here are few from the Sebastopol side of the Laguna.         [...]

Any tree in a storm.... The first storm of the fall rolled in to the Redwood Empire today.  Not many people out at the Laguna...so I photographed trees. -Kent Porter  

Not much time today..but did pop off this frame overlooking the Laguna de Santa Rosa.   -Kent Porter

The Harvest Moon. Yes, it appeared on Wednesday.  Yes, I made many photographs of the celestial event. There were subtle differences between this years Harvest Moon weather and last years when I captured the moon rising over the Trione Barn on Slusser Road near the airport.  Last year it was [...]

Feel that?  The first real cool morning today of this now late summer.  The water in the Laguna is much warmer than the air temperature steam fog is the result.  Have to be fast though if you want to catch it, once that warm sun pops-up, it dissipates quickly. [...]