When covering a recent Stockton City Council meeting (which can be pretty dry events) I saw something that I had never noticed before. At the press table at the back of the council chambers reporter Kevin Parrish (filling in for City Hall reporter Scott Smith who was off that day) was reflected in the gold-colored [...]
Nearly everyone in Stockton knows the two golden bear statues that stand in front of the Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium in downtown Stockton. Many a Stockton child has climbed on one of the other at some point. A few years ago the static movie marquee-style message board near the bear at the southeast corner of [...]
This photo that I shot of the sun breaking through some clouds over a stand of trees near the northern county line outside of the town of Thornton represents a first of sorts. It ran in the Local section of the Record on March 7 which was my birthday, but that’s not reason it’s special. [...]
I was driving by the Weber Point Events Center in downtown Stockton recently on my way to an assignment, when I saw a young couple attempting to launch a kite. I say “attempting” because there didn’t appear to be any wind. Still, there was some nice light on them, and I thought they might make [...]
In keeping with the spirit of my previous entry, I’m starting an occasional feature simply called “Random Photo.” They may or may not have an interesting story behind them, but they’ll be pictures that in one way or another have caught my eye in my wanderings around the city and county. A couple of weeks [...]
One of my favorite things to shoot is the “enterprise” photo. Sometimes called “wild art” or “stand alone” pictures they are usually shots that run by themselves without a story, just a caption. They are usually “slice of life” pictures that show something interesting or picturesque (or both) in the community. It takes equal amounts [...]
Early last month I had read that spectacular celestial alignment would occur. The planets Venus and Jupiter were to appear close together in the western sky just after sunset for most of March. And aside for the moon, the two would be the two brightest objects in the sky. I was working the night shift [...]
Otis the skydiving dog, whose parachuting exploits captured on an Internet video that went viral, has died. The 10-year-old pug liked to fall from the sky in a specially made harness attached to his master, Will DaSilva. DaSliva said that Otis passed away in his sleep according to CW31’s Good Day Sacramento website. Otis is [...]
“Man bites dog” is how the old saying goes. It means that there is something a little different about a story. After all, dogs biting people is fairly common, and, unless very serious injuries occur, not very newsy. But if the situation is turned around, then it becomes more interesting. Newspapers are always looking for [...]
Sometimes I wake up in the morning, look in the bathroom mirror and see Kim Jung Il looking back at me. My “bed head” hair will often resemble the late North Korean president’s poofy pompadour, and it’s the start of a bad hair day (on the plus side, it does make me look a couple [...]
