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The portrait you make can mean a lot

I have my days when I think of what I do for a living to be a joke. It takes but a fraction of a second to make a picture. While I was at the newspaper, except for natural disasters which affected many lives, the importance of my photography was seldom real. Often I would [...]

Riverside’s Lunar New Year festival 2011

Last Saturday, January 29, Riverside hosted its first Lunar New Year festival. The organizers of this one-day celebration hope to make this an an annual affair celebrating the diversity of the Asians and Asian Americans living in our city and the region. In order that this becomes an annual event, I hope the vendors who [...]

Meet an amazing photographer Rodrigo Peña Part 3

What picture are you most proud to have taken? When I was a staff photographer in 1999, working for the San Bernardino Sun, I was hired by a community newspaper in Sacramento to cover the Little League finals in San Bernardino. The Sacramento Bee sent one of their best photographers and he was able to [...]

Meet an amazing photographer Rodrigo Peña Part 2

Why do you think it’s usually the “usual suspects” that win those contests? First of all, the usual suspects who win contests are great photographers. Second, some have a formula for success. They know that the “different” or unique photos are going to win. Furthermore, some photographers duplicate what has won in past contests and [...]