Garbage on Fire
From time to time we hear these calls on our police scanners and just happen to be in the area. Just another day in Sonoma County. -Kent Porter
A month of Occupy protests
My beat it seems, along with writers Martin Espinoza and Kevin McCallum, has pretty much been Occupy Santa Rosa. Of course, the entire PD staff has reported or photographed the Santa Rosa City Hall encampment at one time or another. It's been a team effort. On the heels of the [...]
Levitation, the Occupation and Photo Miscellaneous
The merry-go-round of news photography keeps on keeping on. This job never gets boring. Right around the corner another story awaits and that's a good thing. When I'm buried in another few decades, my cameras will have to be pried from my hands. This an awesome time to be a [...]
Catwalk for a Cure
Just another day/week/year in SoCo. The Catwalk for a Cure is a raucous but sobering lunch soiree, a fundraiser in the fight against Breast Cancer. The event, in it's ninth year, makes for good photographs. Anyone here not been affected directly or indirectly by Breast Cancer? I didn't think so. [...]
A month in Fort Bragg
We've been busy in the photo dept. You wouldn't guess the newspaper industry has been hammered by the economy, based on the amazing amount of photos we have been shooting here at the Press Democrat. The month of September was taken up with the Fort Bragg story of Aaron Bassler, [...]
Kodachrome Summer
Kodachrome You give us those nice bright colors You give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away -Paul Simon 1973 Once in awhile [...]
Kicking and screaming
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 [...]
Car Problems
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. [...]
Please do not leave your bag unattended
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. [...]
101 bird deaths: Solved
Even as I work the desk this week here in PD photo, I'm still getting out to shoot a photo here and there. Yesterday, I took an hour to photograph the mystery of the dead birds on Highway 101 near Geyserville. Thanks to some timely reporting from Steve Hart, it [...]
