Tom Cochrun /Light Breezes

Noir      A challenge to photographers, night images have a special appeal. There is a delicate balance to achieve in light value to cap...

REVEALING LIGHT Sun rise sweeping away pockets of fog in Cambria Ca.     Investigative journalism resembles the good knight leading a...

HEAVY LIFTING    New life is being built into the iconic Cayucos Pier with its bay view of Morro Rock.    It was built in 1872 but a ...

THINGS TO OCCUPY US UNTIL 2016      John Oliver, subbing for Jon Stewart as the resident satirist on The Daily Show lamented the other ni...

WE ARE SUFFERING SELF INFLICTED WOUNDS      It is as though we've crossed a "Rubicon" and now worry about the consequences....

DIPLOMACY BY RIDICULE       E gyptian president Morsi, who is  thugging his way along a path of repression and regression got mugged last...

LIFE IN FAST FORWARD PHOTO FROM JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY     The "hot line" direct communication link between Moscow and Washing...

NOT THE LIKE THE OLD DAYS Nothing too heavy since this is a weekend, but things in the media have changed and gotten very silly. Jon ...