The thick aroma of whiskey and hay filled the Bull Crossing Cantina, a makeshift bar the California Rodeo Salinas. People dance and fall over, the splashing of spilled drinks darkening your shoes. The liquor flows heavy and quick.
“Take my picture!” People scream and try and squeeze their faces into the camera. Others exhibit a hazy...
“When I review my life as a photographer, I feel blessed and fortunate to have experienced so many wonderful emotions, the most significant being the sense of being alive, powerfully alive.” — Peter Turnley
One of my end-of-the-year enterprise stories was compiling a multimedia presentation for the Salinas Californian’s photo desk’s Pictures of the Year. I finally decided on using a free online program called Vuvox to combine all our images with video interviews of us explaining the pictures. It feels rather awkward watching yourself speak, but we wanted...
