Valley fire: “Lake County is looking like a ghost community”
Photographer Kent Porter's email to his colleagues at the Press Democrat on the collaborative efforts of covering the Valley fire in Lake County.
Photographer Kent Porter's email to his colleagues at the Press Democrat on the collaborative efforts of covering the Valley fire in Lake County.
It was only a year ago that the North Coast was pummeled by vicious wind and driving rain. Santa Rosa had recorded nearly a foot of precipitation for the water year, a half-foot above normal. As many remember, the atmospheric pineapple connection shut down after that. The remaining calendar year [...]
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After emerging from a food coma Thursday, I was assigned to shoot shoppers tearing through the aisles at Toys "R" Us in Santa Rosa. In years past, it was a different story. Black Friday started on FRIDAY and usually started around eight in the morning. In fact, I'm not sure [...]
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