Last Thursday I was working on a blog about my first season photographing the NFL, when I got an email from my friend Wes Schultz. Wes sent me a URL from Wildlanfire.com that said there was a fire near El Portal and they were requesting recourses. I could see a big column of smoke...
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Tags: 2011, Al Golub, August 25, blm, Cal Fire, california, Cedar Lodge, chp, coulterville, DC 10 Air tanker, Dozers, El Portal, fire engines, Fire Fighting, Forest Fire, Grass Fire, Greeley Hill, Helicopter, Highway 140, hose, Mariposa, Merced River, Motor Fire, Motor home, Photography, retardant, Sierra foothills, Trumbull Peak, US forest Service, water drops, Western, Wildland Fire, Yosemite National Park
Last Wednesday about ten in the morning, my wife called to me from outside our house. She said the turkey vultures were flying very low and I should get my camera. We live near the top of Greeley Hill where the up-slope winds allow big birds to soar for hours. I already had my boots...
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Tags: Al Golub, bird, Buzzard, california, carrion, cathartes aura, glide, Greeley Hill, protected., scavenger, soar, Turkey Vulture, vomit
Famous Faces is a new gallery I just started on PhotoShelter. I needed a place to organize the images of famous and infamous people I have photographed during my career: George McGovern, George Wallace, OJ Simpson, Joe Louis, and Ronald Reagan to mention a few. In 1975, recently retired US Senator Sam Ervin was on...
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Tags: 1972, 1975, Al Golub, country lawyer, Ervin Committee, Jim Crow Laws, Joe McCarthy, Modesto, Modesto Junior College, North Carolina, November, racial segregation, resignation of president, Richard Nixon, scandal, Senator Sam Ervin, Watergate hearings