The current Readers Photo Challenge assignment is “heat.” Some readers sent in photos of the sources of heat (the sun, a flame, etc.), while others showed the effects of heat. Whichever tactic they chose, they showed that they were all hot stuff. A total of thirty-seven photos were sent in by eight readers. Here are […]
Top: 11-year-old Jesse Young of Lodi cools off by sliding down the water slide at the Anthony N. Gora Aquatic Center in Galt. Center left: 7-year-old Ella Her-Xiong of Stockton plays in the interactive fountain at the Camanche picnic area at Micke Grove Park in Lodi. Center right: 3-year-old Ni’imah Girley of Stockton […]
13-year-old Joey Juarez of Stockton is doused with a bucket load of water as he cools off from triple-digit temperatures at the water feature at the Lincoln Village West Beach Club in Stockton
There have been years in the past where summer temperatures had started in May, but this year the month of June started off with unseasonably cool temperatures in the 60s and low 70s. We even got a little wet from a couple of days of light rain. It took a couple of weeks, but summer […]
Mick Murphy works under the hot sun as a part of a crew from Stockton Fence replacing the chain link fencing around the baseball fields at Stribley Park in Stockton. (Camera: Nikon D300. Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm @ 17mm. Exposure: 1/250th sec. @ f/22 w/fill-flash. ISO: 200) The saying goes: “It’s not the heat, it’s the […]
Nine-year-old Candace Jones of Stockton, carrying her four-year-old brother Kyle, cools off in the jets of water at the interactive fountain at the Weber Point Event center in downtown Stockton. It was hot. I could feel every one of the day’s 105 degrees when I shot go-kart racers hot lapping at the Stockton Motorplex racetrack […]
Driving around the other day I saw Javier Chavez of Stockton shading himself from the sun with a towel on his head as he walked for exercise around Victory Park in Stockton. It wouldn’t be the greatest shot, but it would show the warm weather of the day. I was headed in the opposite direction […]