35 years ago this Thursday, I was hanging off the top deck of the Bay Bridge and made this image. Will never, ever forget that night.
Kent Porter
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Photojournalist with the Press Democrat based in Sonoma County, Ca. Wait 5 minutes and the wx will change. Pulitzer Prize winner. No🚫AI.
- An extra added bonus of the #Tsunami coverage along the #SonomaCounty Coast was a pod of bottlenose dolphins riding the surf, Saturday afternoon. I'm sure it happens from time to time, but it's my first time photographing them in 35 years @NorthBayNews
- Snow moon. Brought to you by #SonomaCounty, Saturday evening. @NorthBayNews @NWSBayArea #SnowMoon #CAwx
- Replying to @gauravsabnisGot a D in photography while in college in Texas. Told I would probably not make it in the business. Won a Pulitzer in 2018.
- A meteor streaks across the night sky as gusty winds create an ember cast on a valley oak tree burned in the #Kincadefire early Wednesday morning in Knights Valley east of Healdsburg. @NorthBayNews @NWSBayArea
- Mel Smothers of South Lake Tahoe plays the violin to pass the time during the #caldorefire evacuation, Monday afternoon. @NorthBayNews
00:00 - I’m going to run myself ragged trying to thank everyone for the compliments on the air tanker photo. Thanks for the kind words. It’s a remarkable image to be sure and speaks volumes as to the situation in Lake County and California. Be well and be safe. @NorthBayNews #CAwx
- Every fire season, I think it can't get worse. It does though, Every year. The scary part about the #HennesseyFire? This area burns every few years. pressdemocrat.com/article/news/f… @NorthBayNews @NWSBayArea @NWSSacramento
00:00- The Geysers in #SonomaCounty: How it started, January 18, 2021...How its going Jan. 26, 2021. @NorthBayNews @NWSBayArea #CAwx #AtmosphericRiver
- My motto has always been to carry a camera. It gets me into trouble, but not this evening. A brief break between cloud decks allows the setting sun to illuminate a parting storm above Cloverleaf Ranch in Santa Rosa, Sunday evening. @NorthBayNews @NWSBayArea
- I was busy making pictures at the #Dixiefire as my 34th anniversary at the paper came and went, please check out the story and photographs @NorthBayNews Saturday.
- THE #mendocinocomplex of the #riverfire and the #ranchfire continued to expand on Thursday, prompting more evacuations on the north side of the Clear Lake, Thursday. The firefight was intense in Scotts Valley today. @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE #VLAT





















