The Shack restaurant in East Sacramento was packed Saturday, the overflow filling the patio. So many people turned up for the book launch of photographer Tom Myers’ “Postcard History Series: Sacramento,” that he sold the 65 copies he'd brought in little over an hour.   The book is a visual history of Sacramento, taken from Myers’ collection of vintage postcards and supplemented with specific descriptions and historical details.   Myers began collecting postcards about six years ago as an extension of his interest in the history of the Sacramento area. His collection has grown to more than 680 postcards, most of them spanning the years 1905 to 1940.   The introduction to the book was

 Below is the second series of photographs taken by David Roberts during his bike rides around Sacramento    

Sacramento, CA – On Friday, December 4, 2009, the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) will unveil a new photographic exhibition, Red Menace! The Sacramento Conspiracy Trial of 1935. The exhibition documents Communist farm labor organizers on trial in Sacramento for attempting to “overthrow the government.” The evening will include an address about the trial by Dr. Kathryn Olmstead, a professor in the History Department at the University of California, Davis. The exhibition reception with light refreshments begins at 6:00 p.m., while the lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. at CSH (551 Sequoia Pacific Blvd, Sacramento). Tickets are $10.00 a person and must be purchased in advance at CSH or by callin

Photos: 1) Ian Shive at work; 2) Sequoia National Park; 3) Yellowstone National Park Interview by Tony Sheppard Originally published in Capitol Weekly Ian Shive, the photographer behind the new pictorial book "The National Parks: Our American Landscape" recently spent a day in Sacramento, visiting a management class in the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration program at Sac State. I asked him a few questions about his work and the value of parks in our lives: Photography as a living is new to you – before it was more like a cell phone plan: Unlimited nights and weekends. Very true [laughs]. What were you doing before and how did you get into this? I was working as a publicis

                                                                                        See fall colors in Hope Valley!   Yesterday I went with a group of 13 photographers to Hope Valley to capture fall colors. We saw spectacular views. Here is the route we roughly followed:  Hwy 50 to Mormon Emigrant Trail to 88, followed 88 over Carson Pass and through Hope Valley to 89, followed 89 over Monitor Pass (high and glorious views) to Hwy 395, took 395 North and looped back to 88, followed 88 back to 89 and take Luther Pass to Echo Summit and came back to Sacramento on Hwy 50. Caught a great sunset while passing Placerville.               Photos | Kati Garner

Smoke-filled skies from afternoon grassfires along Florin Rd, south of downtown Sacramento, cleared for evening moonrise and sunset.   Photos | Kati Garner

 American River Parkway, 5:33 PM. I'm not saying this bunny is necessarily the one. I'm just saying I photographed him on Easter.

A megalithic ruin, built who knows when -- probably "hundreds of years before the dawn of time" -- the Stonehenge of Fair Oaks is not hard to find. Go to the Sunrise Area of the American River Parkway, walk east from the boat launch until you find an inconspicuous trail head on your right and follow it to the ruin. Other than being a meet-up location for teenagers on four twenty and a canvass for taggers, the ruin has no discernible purpose. Conceivably, you could make a wish there and hope the ruin has special powers to make it come true. Dancing naked near the ruin sounds fun in the abstract, but it is not advisable due to its proximity to the fire road, which the rangers patrol frequen

Good taste prevents me from spelling out for you what it is about spring that really excites us, but the pipevine swallowtail butterflies (Battus philenor) in the photos above will give you some idea what I am talking about. After this all too literal hookup, the female will lay her eggs on the undersides of the leaves of the California Dutchman's-pipe vine, which is endemic to California. The California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is hard not to love, being our state flower and all, but to tell you the truth its floppy, orange pedals annoy me. For one, the pedals are difficult to photograph.  Secondly, they are too obviously beautiful. Like movie stars or fiscal years with never-end

The equinox happens twice a year: once in the spring and once in the fall. Due to the tilt of the earth as it orbits the sun, the relative length of daylight expands and contracts throughout the year. At the equinox, the length of the day is exactly equal to the length of the night. Actually, according to National Geographic News, "The true days of day-night equality always fall before the vernal equinox and after the autumnal, or fall, equinox." Traditionally, the equinoxes mark the beginning of spring and fall, whereas the solstices mark summer and winter.  Photos taken on the American River Parkway, near Sunrise Blvd.  

These are some photos I took last week when the skies were clear with 100 miles of visibility. It’s really stimulating to see the Sierra Mountains rise up behind the city creating a backdrop to the skyline.

Five years ago, Alister Oliver never thought he would be a wanted man for shooting in K Street's Sacramento Art Complex, in fact it was only a few short months ago that he even heard of the Art Complex. Alister is shooting people with his camera and his very quick wit. Alister is the owner of a new photography studio called "Alister....." which is located in the center of the new Sacramento Art Complex. I met Alister while I was helping my girlfriend, artist Lori Wylie at her textured metal art studio located just below his studio at the complex. Alister would come down and put his two cents worth in with humor and some great suggestions into better ways that I might be able to perform my

These photos were taken at a pond near the American River at Sunrise Blvd.  Birds, who have spent all day feeding in the river,  flock to the pond at sun down to spend the night.  There are turtles, too.  But turtles are much more camera shy than birds.

 "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful." — E.E. Cummings Photos taken ARP/Sunrise Bridge.

 AR Parkway, near Sunrise Blvd.

Haik Kocharian is from Armenia. He graduated from the Armenian Theater Academy in 1994 and moved to New York where he became a photojournalist. Inspired by the dynamics of New York city, Kocharian developed his style over the next ten years, contrasting the relationship between a subject and his or her environment. After graduating from Brooklyn College's Photography and Film programs, he began working as a professional fine art photographer. Kocharian has participated in numerous charity auctions, donating his photography to good causes, and has won a number of awards for his photos, including being a finalist in the Smithsonian Magazine Annual Photo Competition. He currently lives an

So my favorite picture is the paint splatters that have created art by covering up another form of art. Funny how that works.  Ok so name this alley way. The first one to correctly name the cross streets gets a reusable sacpress.com grocery bag. 

Sactown magazine, one of the newest regional magazines to our area just released their second anniversary issue. What better way to celebrate its second anniversary than to have some of its award-winning photography shown at the Viewpoint Gallery? From December 12, 2008 to January 3, 2009 the Viewpoint Gallery will be showing, "The Photography of Sactown Magazine: The First Two Years." Sactown has won a number of awards in the relatively short time it has been around. This year, Sactown won a National City & Regional Magazine Award for its June/July photo essay, "In Harm's Way" and also a Maggie Award for its August/September issue. Sactown was also a winner at the Communication Arts Ph

I have always loved the alleyways in the central city and wanted to document the amazing gems that lived just a few steps of the beaten path. The original shot is from the main road and the following are some of the items I chose to shoot. I plan to repeat this process for many streets in the central city. After this first post I will not name the street and I would love to see if the community here on sacpress.com can figure out were each weeks post comes from.   Week one is 10th and Q

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