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Troop 14: Rock climbing at Pinnacles National Monument

This past weekend, Troop 14 camped out at Pinnacles National Monument. The park is near Paicines,California which is a 2.5 hour drive south of San Francisco. It was a new and fantastic trip full of new adventures for the troop, including rock climbing and cave hiking.

Posted 05 March 2012 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal § Troop 14 ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Wildcat Canyon Regional Park for the SF Chronicle

I got some very nice front page play by the San Francisco Chronicle today so I’m posting a few images from the assignment.
We’ve been having a series of fantastically clear days recently, so sunsets have been even more impressive then normal.

Posted 05 December 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Feature § Freelance Reporting ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Troop 14: Flashlight Hike

Last night was Troop 14’s annual flashlight hike. We start around 4 PM and go for about 5 miles, ending around 8 PM. The point of the hike is fulfill some of the younger kid’s requirements to complete some night hiking and to learn compass/map work.
Normally after I shoot something, I edit the images, pick [...]

Posted 04 December 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Troop 14 ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

Nurse Alicia Torres for San Francisco Chronicle

I recently photographed Summit Medical Center registered nurse of 27 years, Alicia Torres, of Oakland.
Torres was the original nurse for Judith Ming, the oncology patient who recently died, but had been locked out on the day of Ming’s death due to the strike.
I didn’t have my mini-travel studio with me, but I wouldn’t have used [...]

Posted 28 September 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Freelance Reporting § portrait ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Troop 14: The Good Turn

A good “turn” is boy scout code for doing a good deed. The Good Turn occurs once a year when every troop volunteers a weekend to help maintain, rebuild or develop a portion of a scout camp. This year, Troop 14 was assigned Camp Tamarancho in Fairfax, Calif.
One of our jobs was to water-test the [...]

Posted 18 April 2011 † Beck Diefenbach § Troop 14 ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , ,