This is not the most timely post, but the story still deserves to be shared.
Last week, I had the opportunity to photograph the most impressive walk-off hit I had ever seen: the elusive walk-off grand slam home run.
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On Tuesday, I found myself in a lot of the wrong places at the wrong time. And not in the way you might think.
Tuesday was the big general strike day lead by Occupy. But this strike was not like the last one in November. This day of protest had a lot of clashes with police and subsequent arrests. Unfortunately, I was bouncing around from San Francisco to Oakland’s Occupy right when the biggest events happened and thus feel like my images were lackluster.
However, I was close by when a flash bang went off in a crowd of protestors which appeared to temporarily impair this one demonstrator.
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Every year Troop 14 does a weekend of volunteer work. Typically the troop goes to a boy scout camp and helps repair or build some of the infrastructure (steps, foundations, drainage, etc).
But this year we were asked to do our “Good Turn” (translates to “good deed” in boy scout language) with the rest of the public on Earth Day. So we helped remove some invasive species of plants (Scotch Broom in this case) in Milagra Ridge County Park.
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Posted 21 April 2012
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Tagged: bay area, boy scouts, earth day, good deed, good turn, invasvie species, milagra ridge county park, nature, pacifica, plants, poinson oak, scotch broom, Troop 14, volunteer
If you think newspapers are struggling, imagine how tough it must be to be at a student newspaper. Even more difficult: an independent student newspaper.
The Daily Californian is one of the very few student newspapers which doesn’t operate under the control or funding of their university. Some would say the freedom from administrator oversight outweighs the threat of budget shortfall.
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Last week, republican primary presidential candidate Ron Paul was in town for a fundraiser in San Francisco and a speech at UC Berkeley.
As per usual, the fundraiser was closed to the press so I was limited to photographing supporters outside and the Dr. Paul’s exit. Thankfully, I had some pretty interesting supporters to document.
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