Atacama Stories

Our CHILE site got launched! Stories from the Atacama Desert, which is in the northern part of Chile. So much fun, so many good memories, and lots of great work!

A Wild Goose Chase

This is a photo/audio project I tag-teamed with another Modesto Bee photographer, Bart Ah You. It is about geese who were relocated from Modesto to the hills, and just as the process was almost finished, they disappeared down the mountainside.... rather controversial.

Magic Hour in Modesto

Mariscos Sinaloa off Crows Landing.
Modesto Nuts baseball game.
Golf course at sunset.

Kayaking with a Seal

Kiddie Swim Lessons

Swim lessons for the kiddies at a local indoor pool in Modesto, Calif.

River Play

The ocean is about two hours away, so the next best watering holes are the rivers that run through Stanislaus County.

During the Heat Wave

People went swimming in the river by the tracks to cool off.

A lot of dairy cows died during the heat wave.

Demolition Derby

This is a photo/audio show I just did on this event at the fair where cars ram into each other.

First 3 Weeks at the Modesto Bee

Jamestown, Calif., goold ole gold mining town (7/22/06).








Buffalo Bill's Tattoo Parlor - teens getting tats are the new craze (7/21/06).


Don's auto repair - fixing an air conditioner to prepare for the summer heat (7/21/06).


Las Casuelas mexican restaurant (7/20/06).


Hot weather feature (7/19/06).



Kimmy Osoria, 18, and Maddy Allen, 12, training for the Junior Olympics in Acrogymnastics (7/18/06).


Garage sale 7/15/06).




The original Batmobile (7/13/06).



Children at the Cougar Soccer summer camp (7/12)06).


Paul Liddy has been living at the Salvation Army in Modesto, Calif., for the past two months. Although he is the only one there now, the organization will be expanding its facilities so it can provide services to more people (7/11/06).


Adam Christianson lets his nine year-old son Kyle try on his hat after getting sworn in as the new Stanislaus County Sheriff (7/11/06).


Helitanker gathering water from a pond on a golf course in Diablo Grande to put on a nearby wildfire (7/10/06).

Best of Chile, Part 2

Most of these pictures come from a story I did on nuns living in a rural town called Toconao. Toconao is less than 30 minutes from the Bolivian border, and so there are lots of Bolivian influences. I went to a festival the town held for Saint Christopher at La Iglesia de San Lucas, and it was incredible to see Bolivian pagan traditions (such as the dancing and costumes) inside an Opus Dei Catholic church.