Category Archives: Enterprise

Random photo #17: Enlightenment

By Clifford Oto | Published: October 23, 2013 | Leave a comment

I haven’t done a “random photo” in a while so here’s one that’s long overdue. They say that the road to enlightenment is a long and arduous one. No it isn’t. It can be found on a small hill at the west end of March Lane in Stockton.

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HONY

By Clifford Oto | Published: May 29, 2013 | Leave a comment

While many street photographers capture their subjects in candid moments through stealthy almost clandestine means, photographer Brandon Stanton takes a different tact. Instead of taking pictures of people who may be unaware of the photographer’s presence he takes quick portraits of his subjects. Most are looking directly into the camera fully aware of what he [...]

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Street view

By Clifford Oto | Published: May 27, 2013 | Leave a comment

Street photography is a branch of photography that has similar roots to documentary photography, photojournalism and even travel photography. But whereas photojournalism seeks to capture photos with news value, documentary records history, and travel photography transports the viewer to other places, the aim of street photography is to capture the mundane and elevate it to [...]

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Random Photo #16: Press here

By Clifford Oto | Published: April 10, 2013 | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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Random Photo #15: Red bear

By Clifford Oto | Published: March 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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A first

By Clifford Oto | Published: March 15, 2013 | Leave a comment

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. [...]

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Persistency

By Clifford Oto | Published: March 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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Random Photo #11

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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Random happenstances

By Clifford Oto | Published: November 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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Heavenly bodies

By Clifford Oto | Published: April 16, 2012 | Leave a comment

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 [...]

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