Pandemonium at the Sonoma County Farm Bureau's Ag Day today (Wednesday). Nearly 2,500 elementary school students took over the Lyttle Cow Palace at the fairgrounds. I'm happy to report that no llamas spit at anybody. There was a ton of adrenaline from the kids. If our government could [...]
Horses+pigs+sheep+tractors=Ag Days this morning at the Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa. 4,800 screaming kids. The PD will be there!
Certainly, journalists will cover the same event numerous times in a career. Here at the Press Democrat we've all covered the Sonoma County Fair dozens of times, The Russian River Jazz Festival, city council meetings etc. I had a good run at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am for many years [...]
I travel around quite a bit. One day I may be in the City, the next I could be in Ferndale or Clearlake or Sacramento or Phoenix....It's an adventure to say the least. One thing that I love to shoot is the coast. Out near Big Blue, nature can be [...]
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