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Several readers have written to ask about the Bee's front page photo of stunt pilot Sean D. Tucker's Oracle III biplane flying over the State Capitol that ran on Saturday, September 8, 2012. Sean was in town to perform in the California Capital Air Show at Mather airport that weekend. His team invited the...
A solar eclipse is a big event. Big. And perhaps because it involves forces far beyond our Earth, it seems to occur that much further from our control. It is huge, inevitable and unstoppable, like being run over by a glacier. In 1979 when I was just developing my passion for photography, I traveled...
Recently I was asked to illustrate what was being called the "Super Moon" - a full moon that, because of its unusually close proximity to Earth, would appear slightly larger and brighter in the sky than normal. Although the difference was barely noticeable, I wanted to make a picture that would suggest the idea...
When the Crocker Art Museum was preparing to unveil its new expansion project, I suggested we do some 360° interactive panoramas so readers could get a sense of the new space before it opened. I did plenty of research to learn how to create these fun and fascinating panoramas. The Bee invested in a...
I love it when I have an excuse to put the camera into an underwater housing to make a photograph. Last month The Bee published a story about the return to the American River of the recently-declining salmon population. I was assigned to photograph the Nimbus Fish Hatchery where countless salmon eggs were hatching...
