Category: Photography

By Gale McCreary We dream of helping others in desperate poverty…Clare Campbell does it. With little more than an insatiable desire to provide opportunity to those whose lives are terribly challenged, she founded Congo Threads, a not-for-profit educational and fund-raising organization, that serves the women and children of Congo. Today two Ishara Houses provide nurturing homes for 54 orphans, plus… Read More

Julianne Bonnet is a writer, photographer, soap maker, and digital artist who draws inspiration from nature and concepts of emotional healing. She holds an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College as well as a credential to teach college composition.  She can often be found wandering the hiking trails of Santa Cruz County with her camera slung across… Read More

Boulder Creek local Robert Staton captured the last full moon of 2021 as he was leaving Wild Roots Market in downtown Boulder Creek. Native Americans called this the “cold moon,” welcoming the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere on December 21, the Winter Solstice. Staton used his trusty Samsung Z Flip 3 cellphone cam to take the… Read More

By Larry Colen I took my first photography class when I was 12, in Summer school in 1973 right after we moved to Felton. A few months later my dad and I set up a darkroom in one of the bathrooms of our house. I continued doing photography fairly seriously through college, unfortunately after I graduated, I no longer had… Read More

Miguel Zafra is an Indigenous photographer from Oaxaca, Mexico, who moved to the San Lorenzo Valley 20 years ago. He documents people and nature with a charged mixture of fine art photography and photojournalism. More recently he has focused his lens on the natural wonders of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Zafra has worked as an independent photojournalist for local publications. His photographs… Read More