https://www.randallbenton.com/people daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938380849-H9UKG8G7EMUQ4X2S5OZV/RB+Fire+and+Steel+29.JPG Faces "Wild" Bill Hill takes a photo of himself in front of large bursts of fire during the 'Fire and Steel' event in Colfax on Saturday, June 14, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938380849-H9UKG8G7EMUQ4X2S5OZV/RB+Fire+and+Steel+29.JPG Faces "Wild" Bill Hill takes a photo of himself in front of large bursts of fire during the 'Fire and Steel' event in Colfax on Saturday, June 14, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594025738-BHMMLR3OJ4QRT3JY8P24/RB+Elmer+Carter+1.jpg Faces Former Negro Leagues baseball player Elmer Carter 98, at his home in Rancho Cordova on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Carter is believed to be one of the few remaining Negro Leagues players still living, and played for the Kansas City Monarchs from 1929-1931. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1426310750631-RUDF3I0NI1VODG7DRCDK/RB+Fire+and+Steel+29.JPG Faces "Wild" Bill Hill takes a photo of himself in front of large bursts of fire during the 'Fire and Steel' event in Colfax on Saturday, June 14, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594041360-9CXTHY70Q1YP4U770BS7/RB+Ferraro+Close.jpg Faces Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro at the offices of Global Consulting Group where she works as a Senior Advisor, in Sacramento on Wednesday June 13, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594060979-ZJ8QKZOKBXXPJ166H7OI/RB+Guy+Fieri.jpg Faces Restauranteur and Food Network personality, Guy Fieri at his restaurant, Tex Wasabi's in Sacramento on Tuesday March 27, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594078975-ICSB1JQKYLHNWCR00C0N/RB+Muralist+2.jpg Faces Mural artist Alex Forster stands in front of his artwork at 24th Street and Broadway in Sacramento on Monday, April18, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594097741-QEB6RS6X1WFFF8W6HNDS/RB+Richmond+4.jpg Faces Former NBA star Mitch Richmond in Sacramento on Thursday, March 7, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594117410-8LG2C92KA8C9JMQK1YMK/RB+Schulz+Museum+Jeannie.jpg Faces Jeannie Schulz, wife of "Peanuts" comic strip creator Charles Schulz at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa on Wednesday July 18, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594138285-Y82XOMS2SVFVATECGG77/RB+Stephen+Hawking+Profile.jpg Faces Cosmologist Stephen Hawking delivers the annual J. Robert Oppenheimer Lecture in Physics at Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley on Tuesday March 13, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1616645160187-7DFUK05OKUIJ0UWM144H/RB+Osacar+Robertson.jpg Faces NBA Hall of Famer, Oscar Robertson at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento Saturday, February 15, 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594156809-B8TZKJ8WRUT8ARA2DLCB/RB+Tom+Sullivan.jpg Faces Radio host Tom Sullivan broadcasts from the KFBK radio studio in Sacramento on Wednesday August 29, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594180200-6JRSBSPL5QWO7D0K9WR3/RB+Zasio+1.jpg Faces Dr. Robin Zasio in her office in Sacramento on Wednesday, November 9, 2011. Zasio is "Dr. Zasio" from the television program, "Hoarders." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594223476-TYJWXDUIENVGUPMEZPOD/PNG+Green+Hair.jpg Faces Her arms full of other groceries, an unidentified woman carries food on her head in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594455121-JW8GHCLDWM79LRQPSJPA/RB+LuxLife+5.jpg Faces Magazine CEO Anthony Glover, left, and company COO Tim Merri at the offices of LuxLife magazine in Sacramento on Tuesday January 29, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594475674-XPLUHZ7EU1SL53MUNTXF/RB+Russ+Solomon+Smile.jpg Faces Tower Records founder Russ Solomon in the original Tower Records store on Broadway in Sacramento on Wednesday May 16, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594499420-GSXVSU2SLJL6QZUOKI19/RB+Tamara+Bennett.jpg Faces Pastor Tamara Bennett at the "This Is Pentacost" Fellowship Ministries in South Sacramento on Tuesday September 23, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500594524773-RYJ6IBTSL7HT3PFHMEX7/RB_Jerry_Brown_office_1.jpg Faces California Governor Jerry Brown sits in the governor's capitol office in Sacramento on Tuesday, December 1, 2015. Brown will be leaving for Paris France to participate in a global conference on climate change a few days later. As California's governor, climate change is one of his biggest issues. https://www.randallbenton.com/underwater-1 daily 0.75 2019-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938607726-0BHL3Y347NZALRVEFIVX/Anemone+Shrimp+2.jpg Below - NPPA BEST OF PHOTOJOURNALISM 2009 (science and nature) Less than 1/2" long, a spotted Cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus) clings to the tentacles of a Giant anemone (Condylactis gigantea) at Bari Reef in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Sunday, June 7, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938607726-0BHL3Y347NZALRVEFIVX/Anemone+Shrimp+2.jpg Below - NPPA BEST OF PHOTOJOURNALISM 2009 (science and nature) Less than 1/2" long, a spotted Cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus) clings to the tentacles of a Giant anemone (Condylactis gigantea) at Bari Reef in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Sunday, June 7, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666153377-YLLHL8SJIWAYN66DUX4F/BEHAVIOR0004.jpg Below An Orange fin clownfish (Amphiprion chrysopterus) rests among the tentacles of an anemone at German Channel dive site in Palau on Saturday, December 12, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666173219-59583S3G3QL8F5O9LZY3/Bonaire+09+0030.jpg Below A Sharpnose Pufferfish (Canthigaster rostrata) in Bonaire on Monday, June 1, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666195430-6S8K1URME351YVOQ1CNL/MU_Randall_Benton_03.jpg Below - 67th PICTURES OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL (award of excellence) A Scorpion fish (Scorpaena plumieri) lies motionless on a coral head in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. These fish are very difficult to spot as their camouflage is so effective. They lie still, visually blending into the surrounding rocks and feed by sucking smaller fish into their mouths. They also have venomous spines on their dorsal fins for protection. https://poy.org/67/02/ae01_08.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666219691-DDPPEJ1FN0DXTPJS50JS/Palau0027A.jpg Below A Pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion) and anemone at New Drop Off dive site in Palau on Saturday, December 12, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666241278-UG94FHEMTMHKCLHZSEV6/Palau0029A.jpg Below A snorkeler is surrounded by millions of non-stinging Golden jellyfish (Mastigias cf. papua etpisoni) at Lake Ongeim'l Tketau – popularly known as Jellyfish Lake – in Palau on Friday, December 17, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666264485-0LQFTBYHL71V86AUTR2I/Palau0038A.jpg Below Divers photograph a large Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus) at Blue Corner dive site in Palau on Saturday, December 12, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666287740-5M2ATF6IVPK2AHZKHTCC/Palau0049A.jpg Below A pair of Pink skunk clownfish (Amphiprion perideraion) among the tentacles of an anemone at Blue Corner dive site in Palau on Tuesday, December 14, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666319306-IZ984S53HLBBKQJPHXTS/Palau0075A.jpg Below A diver descends into Blue Holes dive site in Palau on Monday, December 13, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666341837-9TUGXBR7P20YX772N01L/RB+Beavers+1.jpg Below Mature Kokanee salmon spawn along Taylor Creek near Lake Tahoe on Thursday, October 4, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666361185-CBIRVWLNB7B1M1002B3E/RB+Bonaire+0008.jpg Below - 67th PICTURES OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL (award of excellence) A Sargeant Major (Abudefduf saxatilis) swims through a section of pipe at 'Bari Reef' in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Monday, June 8, 2009. These colorful 6-inch long fish are aggressively territorial and common throughout the Caribbean. https://poy.org/67/02/ae01_03.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666385358-KIVO3DEVH61T6L9609ZJ/RB+Bonaire0003.jpg Below - 67th PICTURES OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL (award of excellence) A Trumpet fish (Aulostomus maculatus) swims vertically among a gorgonian at 'Bachelor Beach' dive site in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Monday, June 8, 2009. Trumpet fish are usually seen swimming vertically to hide among corals and marine plants. They are ambush predators that feed on smaller fish and shrimps. https://poy.org/67/02/ae01_04.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666413941-6WX8EOSG1L3EK5043R7P/RB+Bonaire0009.jpg Below - 67th PICTURES OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL (award of excellence) A spotted Eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) swims between two reef structures at a site called Angel City in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. https://poy.org/67/02/ae01_09.php https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666441426-HOA84RT5JXG1B5W6Z3IR/RB+Kona+Manta+2014.jpg Below - Wetpixel’s Picture of the Year 2009 Underwater photographer Doug Perrine foreground, photographs large pacific manta rays at night in Kona, Hawaii on Tuesday May 27, 2008. https://wetpixel.com/articles/randall-benton-wins-wetpixel-picture-of-the-year-2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666461087-MVGDK3JDLR3ZG6GQVUG3/RB+Shrimp.jpg Below A 1/2" long spotted Cleaner shrimp (Periclimenes yucatanicus) dances among the tentacles of a Giant anemone (Condylactis gigantea) in Bonaire on Monday, April 2, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666486247-KVW5ZCTU9LQTE2TLSUVE/RB+Socorro+3.jpg Below Diver Darlene Ott approaches a giant manta ray (Manta birostris) at a dive site called 'El Boiler" at the Revillagigedo Islands on Thursday, May 28, 2010. (Though she appears to be touching the manta, she is actually several feet further from the camera than the manta is.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666506838-BVVBO1W34MYZ3M0XQ7V8/RB+Trumpet+fish+eye.jpg Below - WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2013 (3rd prize, Nature) The eye of a Caribbean Trumpet fish (Aulostomus maculatus) refracts light into multiple colors in Bonaire on Sunday, April 1, 2012. https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2013/29860/1/2013-Randall-Benton-NA3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666531911-52W409WKU8AU2EOHFVU8/RB_Smolt_Release_1.jpg Below Thousands of fall run American River Chinook salmon smolts race through the water as they are released at the mouth of the American River in Sacramento on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) released three million young Chinook salmon, or smolts, near Discovery Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666552209-07TGY58PSHALFRSX1I7I/Underwater+039.jpg Below With flashlights in hand, cavern divers Mariana Leal, right, and Darlene Ott enter Dos Ojos cenote near Playa del Carmen Mexico on Thursday May 31, 2007. Cenotes are entrances to a huge freshwater-filled cave system in theRiviera Maya area of Mexico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666580604-PSX9D08KVJQQDYWGWLL0/RB_Monterey_Cormorant.jpg Below A Brandt's cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus) swims through an underwater forest of giant kelp in Monterey, California on August 7, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666598975-AVPCIMAKHD982SSJ3IYY/RB_Bonaire_2015_55.jpg Below A Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) in Bonaire on Friday, August 14, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666617673-Y70ZRY836KQTFWF0YLZS/RB_Bonaire_2015_29.jpg Below The lips, fins, and tail of a Blue tang (Acanthurus coeruleus) in Bonaire on Tuesday, August 11, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666636200-DAR8Q2C2NGZ4SWG9F06A/RB_Bonaire_2015_57.jpg Below A young Longspine balloonfish (Diodon holocanthus) peers out from behind a coral head at Something Special in Bonaire on Friday, August 14, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500666653858-C7C9455JYDKWPARDZP8N/RB_Bonaire_2015_23.jpg Below A tiny Arrow crab (Stenorhynchus seticornis) hides inside an Azure Vase sponge at Bari Reef in Bonaire on Wednesday, August 12, 2015. https://www.randallbenton.com/news daily 0.75 2024-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938235210-KNUKRR9Y4ZZWCPT6TZI1/RB_McClintock_Townhall_12.jpg News Congressman Tom McClintock (R) 4th District California, center, is escorted by Roseville Police through a hostile audience from the Tower Theater in Roseville on Saturday, February 4, 2017. McClintock held a town hall meeting at the theater and hundreds of anti Trump demonstrators chanted slogans and carried signs outside. The swollen crowd eventually blocked traffic on Vernon Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938235210-KNUKRR9Y4ZZWCPT6TZI1/RB_McClintock_Townhall_12.jpg News Congressman Tom McClintock (R) 4th District California, center, is escorted by Roseville Police through a hostile audience from the Tower Theater in Roseville on Saturday, February 4, 2017. McClintock held a town hall meeting at the theater and hundreds of anti Trump demonstrators chanted slogans and carried signs outside. The swollen crowd eventually blocked traffic on Vernon Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1488431675916-V64WFNF7JDNYBZ5RXKM9/RB_McClintock_Townhall_12.jpg News Congressman Tom McClintock (R) 4th District California, center, is escorted by Roseville Police through a hostile audience from the Tower Theater in Roseville on Saturday, February 4, 2017. McClintock held a town hall meeting at the theater and hundreds of anti Trump demonstrators chanted slogans and carried signs outside. The swollen crowd eventually blocked traffic on Vernon Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593582532-HUTZP8NAAA3MY0MFYD1F/RB_King_Fire_7.JPG News Cal Fire strike crews battle the King fire in El Dorado County near Fresh Pond on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1426310464375-LX23697FC5GSZRNGQ3XZ/RB_King_Fire_7.JPG News Cal Fire strike crews battle the King fire in El Dorado County near Fresh Pond on Wednesday, September 17, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593602039-42JJ43NBTLOWQTQ1PZDS/RB+Barack+Obama+Walk.jpg News Presidential Candidate, Senator Barack Obama greets a small crowd of supporters on 16th Street in Sacramento on Wednesday August 8, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593622037-P45V56HM0Q1L8769M458/RB+CHP+Bell.jpg News CHP Officers prepare to ring a bell during a ceremonial bell ringing at the CHP Academy in West Sacramento on Wednesday August 1, 2007. The ceremony was for Officer Douglas Russell who was killed in the line of duty in July. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593642686-V8GE02RQKBC8ITCLNXJ0/RB+Cindy+Sheehan+1.jpg News Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, right, with her attorney Dennis Cunningham outside the Federal Courthouse in Sacramento on Thursday, April 19, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593665058-USP2NZPMPHZNX38UN5IV/RB+Colver+Witt+4.jpg News Steven Colver steps out of the elevator to be sentenced at the El Dorado County Superior court in Placerville on Friday, August 12, 2011. Colver and his girlfriend Tylar Witt were convicted of murdering Tylar's mother, Joanne Witt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1721221893402-4Q5MVMZC5Y0HI14CCYM5/RB_McClintock_Townhall_03.jpg News Trump supporter Lance Snead of Roseville, left, is confronted by anti-Trump demonstrator Louise Isaacson of Newcastle during an anti-Trump rally in front of the Tower Theater in Roseville on Saturday, February 4, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593691010-VBVSUXEAYSFXHLBB3AVV/RB+Davis+Protest+1.jpg News Davis Police and Yolo County Sheriff deputies carry away 5th year UC Davis student Laura Mitchell as students demonstrate at the UC Davis campus on Thursday, March 4, 2010. The students tried to block traffic on Interstate 80 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593717161-1EB90VS3J4PXGTJB1R2L/RB+Drowning+Girl.jpg News Julie Saeteurn 13, cries while she waits for law enforcement divers to recover the body of her boyfriend Jimmy Saeteurn from the river at Discovery Park in Sacramento on Thursday May 18, 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593735593-BQ5KYT21OH14PJ7Y2EWP/RB+Fire+Hoffman.jpg News Edith Hoffman picks through the ashes of her home in El Dorado on Wednesday July 19, 2006 after it was destroyed by a wild fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593757185-XWZBNW09UKSALF6ASVXG/RB+Funeral+14.jpg News Sukhwinder Kaur, center, is escorted past the flag-draped casket of her son Parminder Singh Shergill at Cherokee Memorial Park in Lodi on Saturday, February 8, 2014. Parminder Singh Shergill was a US Army veteran and was shot to death by police in Lodi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593781610-2ZZ0B5GNOSR1Z9JFCXDA/RB+Gun+Drawn.jpg News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593804186-8S935A9S2P4E3PLQ81W8/RB+Jerry+Brown+2.jpg News California Governor Jerry Brown delivers signatures for a tax measure to the county registrar's office in Sacramento on Thursday, May 10, 2012. HIs wife, First Lady Anne Gust Brown is with him on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593828980-P02TM9ZYFY2OS6FEZWBK/RB+Newsome+2.jpg News San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom during a townhall meeting at the Tsakopoulos Library Galleria in Sacramento on Thursday, August 13, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593853224-FWL3JXZTL94Y2N44CRDV/RB+Pot+Raid+4.jpg News El Dorado County Sheriff's Sergeant James Byers dismantles a illegal marijuana garden in a remote area of El Dorado county on Thursday, August 20, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593874640-G838F9BYT2XVKQGL4LA4/RB+SafeGround+1.jpg News Homeless camper Tim Buckley at the former "SafeGround' encampment along the American River Parkway in Sacramento on Wednesday, February 9, 2011. Authorities gave out notices to homeless campers along the river. What had been called a "Safeground' for homeless campers is now being vacated, and campers were given 48 hours to move out, or be cited. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593895668-X6YU0VFUB3TYQNLBSMY8/RB+Shooter+10.jpg News A California Highway Patrol officer and Roseville Police stop a motorist as he leaves a neighborhood where a search continues for a man suspected of shooting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Roseville on Friday, October 25, 2013. Inbound traffic was closed, but residents leaving the area where stopped, and their vehicles briefly searched to make certain the armed suspect did not escape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593919924-1U4MZHB52TL0V4U395SA/RB+Veterans+5.jpg News Firefighters line up around a makeshift water tank during a training exercise at the California Conservation Corps facilities in Auburn on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593964896-9VS7U2X94Z3BXUNNR7OE/RB_Wildfire_1.jpg News A Cal Fire aircraft drops fire retardant on a wild land fire burning near the Story winery in Plymouth, CA on Friday, July 25, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500593982584-W0QS3E7TTQ9FH3TX4VM9/B_0012.jpg News CHP officers investigate a crash at the intersection of Windsock Ave and Winding Oak Drive in Fair Oaks on Friday, February 12, 2016. https://www.randallbenton.com/daily-life daily 0.75 2025-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1698023156274-AV4FNVN40HQZQ3HAUIPP/RB+War+Dance+3.jpg Life Winnemem Wintu tribe members perform a War Dance during a ceremony near the Shasta Dam in northern California September 12, 2004. The tribe performed the War Dance for four days to protest the federal government's plan to raise Shasta Dam. They claim the higher water levels would submerge sacred ceremonial grounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1698023156274-AV4FNVN40HQZQ3HAUIPP/RB+War+Dance+3.jpg Life Winnemem Wintu tribe members perform a War Dance during a ceremony near the Shasta Dam in northern California September 12, 2004. The tribe performed the War Dance for four days to protest the federal government's plan to raise Shasta Dam. They claim the higher water levels would submerge sacred ceremonial grounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1635101409686-E2BVKAI26H0MQEHLFJW1/RB+Lombard+Street_printA.jpg Life Car headlights illuminate Lombard Street in San Francisco, Calif. 4:41 am, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. 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14, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591723547-JJDO503MCPXC0P2Z32HR/RB_Whites_Tree_Frog.jpg Wild Whites Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591808921-RY7J8842HBQ4ZMQD132S/Morning+Lion.jpg Wild A young male lion (Panthera leo) in the morning light in Amboseli Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591838478-5J7CV15W1EN30FZ9NXEE/RB+Bluebirds+2.jpg Wild Bluebird chicks (Sialia mexicana) chirp for food from their nest inside a box in El Dorado on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591873630-6QG3IV4UXGPWVABDKQ71/RB+Sandhill+Cranes+2.jpg Wild Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) fly over Staten Island near Thornton, California on Thursday, October 31, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1430352811504-Q9LA52YWAH456SJ8JE2S/NEA_P0810_DEER.jpg Wild A family of Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) forage for breakfast of grass and fruit trees on in El Dorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591929812-4OS61N26M4OSIMNVE4AJ/RB+Mendocino+17.jpg Wild A mushroom called 'Fly Agaric' (Amanita muscaria) in Mendocino on Thursday, November 8, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591971282-7FN2BJBF07KP4KYSN21F/RB+Caterpillar.jpg Wild A White-marked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma) caterpillar in El Dorado on Saturday May 10, 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500591999718-0TIFUIOW1XJN6LUG0961/RB+Mendocino+4.jpg Wild A pair of pelagic cormorants (Phalacrocorax pelagicus) sun themselves on a log, right, as a third splashes into the water on the Noyo River in Fort Bragg on Friday, November 9, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1569844595775-O79JVKNGEZZ0CXK7GVEV/RB+Yellowstone_41.jpg Wild A herd of Bison crosses the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park Friday, Sep. 13, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500592030085-37X89RNPQB5I54V2KZ8O/RB+Doves+0001.jpg Wild A mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) tends to its young in a nest in El Dorado on Monday, May 18, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1430352811840-SPGK72MDV1KPEORPVKCS/Cheetah.jpg Wild A cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) rests under a tree in Kenya. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500592069585-ZUPDABHS002FC3UF8B0W/RB+Bee+Haven+4.jpg Wild A honey bee (Apis mellifera) gathers pollen from a flower in Davis on Tuesday, August 17, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500592102522-RMSYOH13RCNOBGN01WUN/RB+Bluebird+0001.jpg Wild A male Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) with lunch in El Dorado on Monday, May 18, 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500592125096-MFVTE59E2K22QUHMKZJI/RB+Deer+Native.jpg Wild A Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) in a meadow in Olema on Monday June 12, 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500592151050-89IOBRQ6BNGFWDPQGJ4G/RB+Monterey+13.jpg Wild A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at old fisherman's wharf in Monterey on Tuesday, February 21, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500592175626-7CLBZAXKMXNA59RO0Z0T/RB+Reptile+Show+13.jpg Wild A baby veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) walks on the finger of Zach Shpizner in Sacramento on Saturday, September 29, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1446938276732-6PHORKK4DO86LNB63F9V/image-asset.jpeg Wild - YouTube https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1452990222672-J3Y4D0JSZ6DH03MSAT86/image-asset.jpeg Wild - Bald Eagles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1464931694326-S1XY7G1V3KGL59PC769S/image-asset.jpeg Wild - Bird Strikes https://www.randallbenton.com/heavens daily 0.75 2024-07-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1697515969438-BU0IMNGMHZSCB1Z0BIVV/RB+Annular+Eclipse+2c_092210.jpg Above The Moon is silhouetted against the sun during an annular solar eclipse viewed from Jiggs, Nevada October 14, 2023. Unlike a total solar eclipse, during an annular eclipse the Moon is farther from the earth and does not completely obscure the Sun’s disc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1697515969438-BU0IMNGMHZSCB1Z0BIVV/RB+Annular+Eclipse+2c_092210.jpg Above The Moon is silhouetted against the sun during an annular solar eclipse viewed from Jiggs, Nevada October 14, 2023. Unlike a total solar eclipse, during an annular eclipse the Moon is farther from the earth and does not completely obscure the Sun’s disc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1697516272277-0T06B1E50KK6XUNCVEY6/RB+Annularity+big..jpg Above The Moon is silhouetted against the sun during an annular solar eclipse viewed from Jiggs, Nevada October 14, 2023. Unlike a total solar eclipse, during an annular eclipse the Moon is farther from the earth and does not completely obscure the Sun’s disc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1622084070967-QITPQL0RFSV8PLJOS6FS/RB_Sun_xfused+even+2.jpg Above The Sun in Hydrogen alpha light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1672611996630-JQZ9ZMLX4SJ5K5Z7LAI3/RB+Andromeda+Galaxy+M31.jpg Above The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31. This galaxy is approximately 2.5 billion light years from Earth, and is approximately 150,000 light years in diameter. (William Optics GT71, Celestron AVX mount, ZWO ASI 1600MM camera.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1594702254643-EYZVSGAX3T2KYRYTY47Q/image-asset.jpeg Above Seen from West Sacramento, comet C/2020 F3, commonly referred to as comet 'Neowise' is visible in the northeast sky over the skyline of Sacramento, Calif. Sunday, Jul. 12, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1564779457737-TM0X4HFRR6MH783Y51OX/A+HUTS.jpg Above The Milky Way arches above the red slave huts on the southern tip of Bonaire, Friday, July 26, 2019. The four-foot high huts were built in the 1850s, and are a remnant of a time when Dutch colonists used slave labor to extract salt from sea water on the south end of the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1533143139813-9QSJMQU0RTXOZ33J3JAV/ISS+Transit+comp_thumb.jpg Above - ISS Transit of the Sun Visible from Shingle Springs, California on Monday, July 30, 2018 through smoke from California wildfires, the International Space Station (ISS) can be seen speeding across the face of the Sun at approximately 20,000 mph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1514331592198-EOM5IFJ0DONRTYP536MH/RB_Iceland_14A.jpg Above Aurora Borealis over the Lambalaekur farmhouse in Borgarnes, Iceland on Tuesday, December 26, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1622083139229-84PKTMZDEEUYQ7Q3OQ4O/RB+Lombard+Street_printA.jpg Above Under the setting moon, automobile headlights wind down Lombard Street in San Francisco, Calif., at 4:41 am, Thursday October 29, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1538083305853-6N7BOUH2ECLDR0BOURHG/RB_Burney_Falls_4.jpg Above McArthur Burney Falls Memorial State Park in Burney, CA at 2:00 AM on Monday, September 10, 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1505427577107-RB0G55IDD2T995AZG7B1/CoronaStack_2_web.jpg Above - Total Eclipse 2017 Mitchell, Oregon Total Solar eclipse seen from Mitchell, OR. on Monday, August 21, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1622060658205-YDSHU6X4SH2K5V86MR3J/eclipse2_even+small.jpg Above In this image in Hydrogen-alpha light derived from video and in false color, sunspot activity is clearly visible as the moon partially obscures the sun during the total solar eclipse near Mitchell, OR on Monday, August 21, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595399837-RA4DRCZKJRNCU1E9L8FO/RB+Shasta+Eclipse+2.jpg Above - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 'Ring of Fire' (frame #5) A multiple exposure of the annular solar eclipse over Mt Shasta near McCloud on Sunday, May 20, 2012. National Geographic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1503415855114-0KV65HZAWIED3N3KSZKV/RB_Eclipse_wall_0004.jpg Above The last bit of sunlight disappears behind the moon in aphenomenon commonly called the "Diamond Ring" during the total solar eclipse near Mitchell, OR on Monday, August 21, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1504913401839-BWWW30T313N00BB9P63X/RB_A_Eclipse.jpg Above The corona is revealed during the total solar eclipse near Mitchell, OR on Monday, August 21, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1495938507396-7RIO2CYFERL8X5ZO8BRH/Eclipse+Final.jpg Above Total solar eclipse taken in Todos Santos, Mexico on July 11, 1991. This is a composite of 9 different exposures to reveal subtle details that cannot be captured in a single exposure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595441318-INM5T371SKIHABHVCXS8/RB+Star+Event+Lineup.jpg Above Visitors line up to look through a telescope at Squaw Valley Resort on Friday July 13, 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595467863-NY7FKG05CRJ5TPV2Y1OG/RB+Transit+of+Venus+1.jpg Above A silhouette of the planet Venus against the sun during the Transit of Venus viewing event at the El Dorado Observatory in Placerville, CA on Tuesday, June 5, 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1533110981643-IQ1A0EX06YPS3QLG7AWW/RB_Lunar_Eclipse_skyline.jpg Above The partially eclipsed moon is seen through a thin veil of morning fog over the skyline of Sacramento on Wednesday, January 31, 2018. This morning's total lunar eclipse coincided with a "blue moon" and a "super moon." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1564499187053-7DJL4STTUNR00LQMERDF/Milky+Way+Bonaire_2.jpg Above The Milky Way arches above the red slave huts on the southern tip of Bonaire, Friday, July 26, 2019. The four-foot high huts were built in the 1850s, and are a remnant of a time when Dutch colonists used slave labor to extract salt from sea water on the south end of the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595486567-OAOAOUA6S5PB9OBIYP71/RB+Ultra+Light+2.jpg Above A flock of ducks flies past an ultralight pilot near White Rock Road in El Dorado Hills on Friday, March 14, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1697135332690-0Z5UBNZV1V1N804XU0KN/subtle+inv.jpg Above The Sun’s chromosphere in Hydrogen alpha light. This image was taken with a telescope equipped with a special filter (etalon) that only passes light from Hydrogen. These details would otherwise be lost due to the intense brightness of the underlying photosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595563637-5PQZMYJ5NT3P8OHIU5QA/RB_Star_Trails.jpg Above Due the Earth's rotation during a four hour exposure, the stars appear to spin around Polaris (the north star) in Lincoln, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1672611917907-1V2CAG8Q8U2C7HHRM12Y/HEART+3.jpg Above The Heart Nebula, also known as IC 1805, is approximately 7,500 light years from Earth and is approximately 200 light years across. It is a cloud of ionized hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur gasses, and is a part of our own Milky Way galaxy. (William Optics GT71, Celestron AVX mount, ZWO ASI 1600MM camera.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1622060538275-4CVO8K27LCF2PF516LZK/RB+Partial+Lunar+Eclipse+small.jpg Above A Partial lunar eclipse seen from El Dorado, Calif., at 4:46 am Wednesday, October 8, 2014. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595585844-M1HBEMGVP0EHKRJD03SN/RB_SuperMoon_1.jpg Above The "Supermoon" rises over the Sacramento skyline on Tuesday, September 9, 2014. When the moon's orbit brings it closest to Earth, or perigee, when it is full it is called a "Supermoon." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595529853-76CO99EBM9W8C3ZRROWA/RB_Moon_Venus_Mars_2.jpg Above A waxing crescent moon in close proximity in the sky to the planet Venus (bright star in the center of the frame) and Mars (the red speck between two) seen through the branches of a tree in Auburn on Friday, February 20, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1503415117814-TPD7IAJEE867KJ8WT1UQ/RB_Eclipse_wall_0001.jpg Above In this image in Hydrogen-alpha light derived from video and in false color, sunspot activity is clearly visible as the moon partially obscures the sun during the total solar eclipse near Mitchell, OR on Monday, August 21, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595379884-YZH24YK0KPOONJ34HCXD/RB+Annular+Eclipse+1.jpg Above The moon is silhouetted against the sun in this annular solar eclipse near McCloud, CA on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Unlike a total solar eclipse, the sun is not completely obscured due to the moon's greater distance from the earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595605250-WPHG3OGWR7XBZRGGP9A8/RB_Hat_Creek_7A.jpg Above SETI researchers monitor the heavens with a field of radio telescopes at the Allen Telescope Array at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Hat Creek northern California on Thursday, September 1, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595631888-70EQ4KX5GAXDIBDVV3ZP/RB+eclipse+hula.jpg Above Alu Vali covers his eyes during a total solar eclipse in Hula, Papua New Guinea on November 22, 1984. The Papuan government distributed leaflets warning remote villagers of the risks of looking directly at the sun. Although it is safe during the total phase, Vali was unwilling to look. The total eclipse lasted only 51 seconds here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1500595657815-OZQFTG52VC85HS5XRNOG/RB_MOON_051716_Color.jpg Above The surface of the moon on Tuesday, May 17, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1533142820298-EN1NB85XMEINFA03CMC0/image-asset.jpeg Above - ISS Transit of the Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1430969198037-2SASKK27TO7BIL62QI0S/image-asset.jpeg Above - Lunar Eclipse time lapse This timelapse video of the total lunar eclipse of October 8, 2014 was shot from my home in El Dorado, CA using a Nikon D4 camera and 840mm lens The camera was mounted on an equitorial mount to follow its movement across the sky. Shooting one frame every 40 seconds, the eclipse you see here actually spanned 3 hours 50 minutes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1564351074791-HMAA4OQUV4PRQSJMB86E/Milky+Way+Bonaire+small.jpg Above The Milky Way arches above the red slave huts on the southern tip of Bonaire, Friday, July 26, 2019. The four-foot high huts were built in the 1850s, and are a remnant of a time when Dutch colonists used slave labor to extract salt from sea water on the south end of the island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1514331446435-P552915JNPTTMIYDA9JS/RB_Iceland_14A.jpg Above Aurora Borealis over the Lambalaekur farmhouse in Borgarnes, Iceland on Tuesday, December 26, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1514256842983-WXI5UQE1CBSTQT17JAN8/RB_Iceland_12C.jpg Above Aurora Borealis over the Lambalaekur farmhouse in Borgarnes Iceland on Monday, December 25, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1503482469968-TFZEX04Q1VSXARHESIIC/RB_Eclipse_wall_0005.jpg Above - Total Eclipse 2017 (video) Total solar eclipse of Monday, August 21, 2017 near Mitchell, OR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1426309398151-JN09M4RAP6MUN0IARPZ1/Eclipse+Final.jpg Above Total solar eclipse taken in Todos Santos, Mexico on July 11, 1991. 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of Led Zeppelin performs at the Oakland Coliseum July 23, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623262824684-GD5TZOCVTA1ADJPY2FFB/RB+Robert+Plant+hair.jpg rock Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin performs at the Oakland Coliseum July 23, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623262490483-NF6C6XJXSKUL4UE3K6R4/Billy+Joel+1A.jpg rock Billy Joel performs at the Oakland Coliseum Oct. 28, 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623262531772-ZN0NFKU3CMQAQXZOC35I/Chuck+Berry+3A.jpg rock Chuck Berry performs at the Circle Star Theater April 9, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623265583865-MZES4FIL5CJU7Y0YJFIP/RB+Chuck+Berry.jpg rock Chuck Berry performs at the Circle Star Theater April 9, 1977. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623262548865-VKE38JX6J5HSX1QCKGU0/Dave+Mason+1A.jpg rock Dave Mason performs 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Anderson of Jethro Tull performs at the Oakland Coliseum Aug. 18, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623262777056-J7DY3FPAYBSQWSDCDS5I/RB+Keith+Emerson.jpg rock Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer performs at the Oakland Coliseum Arena Aug. 6, 1977 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623262796007-L28GZEBSJN0WLPECW8YO/RB+Neil+Diamond.jpg rock Neil Diamond performs at the Sacramento Community Theater Jan. 30, 1976. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623263150793-6L1JDTZ55GTR2TPOV3SK/RB+Mick+Jagger.jpg rock Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones performs at the Oakland Coliseum July 26, 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55012e87e4b02c9014d279e0/1623265701596-OZ6FQ2DHH1J7OR74DP93/RB+Aerosmith.jpg rock Steven Tyler of Aerosmith performs at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Aug. 27, 1976. 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