For All You Photogs Out There....

I read this quote today, and I love it. I hope you do too.

"One should really use the camera as if tomorrow you'd be stricken blind"-- Dorthea Lange.

Think about it.

Cheers.

This Week Through Brian's Eyes

Here are a few shots from the past week. The first set is from a day where there wasn't much going on. I went out looking for feature. Somehow, I always wind up looking for feature in places where people are traveling. I have this incredible curiosity about people in places like airports, train stations and bus stations. There are so many stories. People are only in this one nucleus of a spot for a few minutes, and then they are gone along their own separate paths, traveling in an infinite amount of directions for an infinite amount of reasons.

All Aboard

John Bell, of Las Vegas, reads a book while waiting at the Bakersfield Amtrack station to board his train to Martinez, CA.

John Bell, of Las Vegas, reads a book while waiting at the Bakersfield Amtrack station to board his train to Martinez, CA.

Oswald Diaz, of San Diego, waits in his seat before his train pulls out of the Bakersfield station on its way to Sacramento Thursday.

Conductor Ron Schaefer makes one last check of the loading platform before pulling out of the Amtrack station in Bakersfield.

The Kern County firefighters were kind enough to drive us to the front lines of a wildfire burning in the hills west of I-5 near the town of Grapevine Thursday. There is nothing like the amazing beauty of something so destructive. The unimaginable heat, the beautiful smell, and the painful constant smoke in the eyes while trying to shoot-- and yet, this entity of beauty is destroying and devouring thousands of acres. It's a wonderful paradox.

Two Kern County firefighters stand on the front lines of a wildfire burning west of I-5 Thursday. The fire, which was started by a car fire, burned more than 1,000 acres by midnight.

A Kern County firefighter lights backfires with a drip torch while a fire burns in the hills west of I-5 Thursday.

A Kern County firefighter stands on the front lines of a wildfire burning in the hills just west of Interstate 5.

Paso Robles High School's Travis Davis wrestles in the Coyote Classic High School wrestling tournament at East High School.

Bakersfield's Yuta Tabuse beats Tulsa's Jean Felix on a fast break during the second quarter Saturday.

This little boy was too shy around me to let me take his picture, so I let him play with my camera.