Wow. I am truly humbled and a bit overwhelmed at the response that we got for the Record’s first Readers Photo Challenge (its semi-official title). The theme was “flowers” and from potted plants to wildflowers 40 readers sent in a total of 123 photos! All the flowers are beautiful but there’s a difference between taking [...]
On March 10 I went on the hunt for the Pan-STARRS comet. News reports and science websites said that the comet would be visible to the naked eye near the western horizon just after sundown during several days around the middle of the month. I went out to Buckley Cove Park overlooking the deep water [...]
Just a reminder that we’re still taking submissions for the readers’ photo challenge assignment: Flowers. You don’t necessarily need a fancy DSLR camera. I took the above photo of lupine growing wild at the Stone Lake National Wildlife refuge near Elk Grove with a simple iPhone3GS. The deadline is April 20. The best examples will [...]
Just a reminder that we’re still taking submissions for the readers’ photo challenge assignment: Flowers. They can be of wildflowers out in the countryside or potted plants blooming in your backyard. The deadline is April 20. The best examples will be published in the Record on April 29 with an online gallery of all the [...]
When I was a young photo student at Sacramento City College, one of my favorite things was the lab work. OK, processing film was more or less a solitary task and boring, but I loved making prints in the communal darkroom with the other students. Not only did you see your own photo slowly appear [...]
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. [...]
Some photographers adhere to the theory that one shouldn’t pre-visualize photos before getting to an assignment. They think that they should be sort of a blank slate and capture their photos in sort an extemporaneous fashion. This helps one to see things with a fresh eye and capture things that are creative in their originality. [...]
It is said that one person’s trash is another’s treasure. I guess you can also paraphrase it as one person’s weed is another person’s flower. Water hyacinth is a invasive species of floating plant from South America that has invaded the San Joaquin Delta. It’s been around for about 100 years, and in some [...]
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 [...]
