Big, Bad & Ugly Surf Contest 2009 by Kevin Cole

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Genie's Pocket by Jeanie Greensfelder

The Pause

After breakfast I pause,
and don't hurry to do dishes,
gulp my vitamins,
and rush to work.

I pause…

see four yellow roses
from bud to full bloom,

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Great Shots by Jerry Kirkhart & Steve Corey

Our photo editors bring you some of their favorite coastal images for the month. This month's featured local photographers are Malcolm Carlaw, Anita Ritenour, Jim Radford, Mike Baird, Sylvia Sanchez, Devra Cooper, Linda Tanner, Greg Smith, Howard Ignatius, Rob Bishop, Mike Viera, Don Quintana, Dagmar Collins, Jerry Kirkhart, Mimi Ditchie, James "Dan" O'Donnell, Marlin Harms, Beth Sargent, Peter Boonisar, Michelle Maani, Steve Corey, and Teddy Llovet. See More

One Poet's Perspective by Jane Elsdon

For over four decades my husband, family, and I have traveled countless times back and forth from our home on the Central Coast to Bishop, California where my husband's parents lived until last year.  We haven't been back since his father was lowered into Bishop soil and we tied up loose ends in November.  In our minds, however, it will always be home to us almost as much as our beloved Central Coast is home.    Read More

Opera SLO by Kathryn Bumpass

The Board of Directors of OperaSLO has appointed Brian Asher Alhadeff as its new artistic director.  Brian has a doctorate in Musical Arts from UCLA and is a nationally and internationally recognized opera, ballet, and symphonic conductor. He replaces former artistic director Robert Ashens, who successfully completed a three-year contract and continues his career as Artistic Director of West Coast Opera, productions with Anchorage Opera, and numerous concerts across the nation and Europe. Read More

Shutterbugs featuring Elizabeth Haslam

Ansel Adams allegedly said that the magic of photography is in the darkroom.  The negative is the score; the print is the performance.  When people complain about photographs that don't exactly reflect what the camera recorded, I spew the words of the master in their defense.  Still Ansel was a photo realist, not a pictorialist who was trying to create a painting out of a photograph.  He was in favor of depicting what the camera saw even if he fooled around with dodging and burning in his darkroom, repairing the tonality that "God didn't get quite right*," he said.   I doubt he would approve of the license I take in the performance of photography, but the digital darkroom is indeed a magical place for me.   Read More of What Elizabeth Has to Say

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Valencia Peak Panorama by Howard Ignatius