light stories

Baseball/Softball season begins

2008-04-09T12:54:00.000-07:00

Wheels of Dreams Car Show

2008-03-29T18:38:00.000-07:00

Voter Registration

2008-03-29T18:37:00.000-07:00

Body Language

2008-03-29T02:02:00.000-07:00

Cabbage Farmers

2008-03-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

Aggie Baseball

2008-03-28T21:59:00.000-07:00

Robert Jordan Speech

2008-03-28T21:28:00.000-07:00

Mesilla Valley Balloon Rally

2008-03-28T21:21:00.000-07:00

Prep Tourney Basketball

2008-03-28T21:13:00.000-07:00

Mayfield Girls Softball

2008-03-28T21:07:00.000-07:00

iPhone as camera part deux

2008-03-28T21:01:00.002-07:00

iPhone as a camera

2008-03-13T19:03:00.000-07:00

I'm not much for camera phones, but it can be fun.

Fixing What's Broken

2007-10-09T01:08:00.000-07:00

Top one is the one I modified, the bottom one is Luca Serafini's original.

Before I wanted to be anything else, I wanted as a child to be a car designer. I always wanted to work for Lamborghini because they had no rules, the crazier the better. Only a crazy company could come up with something as outrageous and sexy as the Countach. Only a passionate and wild company could name that car after an italian slang profainity. Probably explains my taste in women somewhere in there. I guess I will go back to dating Italian. On to the design...

Italian design student Luca Serafini cranked out this wonderfully crazy concept for the Italian car maker. I felt there are some interesting concepts, but he came out with a bulbous and front heavy ideal. I ran a Spherize filter in Photoshop at -19 and I think it corrects some of the proportions here. There is the start for a nice car in here somewhere. Overall his design, I think looks very much like a reworked Zonda and NSX. Is that a bad thing? Not at all. That's like saying it's a bad thing to date a woman who looks like Elsa Benitez.

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Knockout Dreams

2007-09-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

STREET FIGHT

Maximiliano Garcia, 11, spars with Tony Serrano on the sidewalk outside the boxing club on Thursday afternoon. Serrano serves not only as a trainer but also a leader as the program coordinator.

BOXING KEYCHAIN

Even the keys to the boxing club travel van haven't escaped being branded with the red gloves.

ATTENTION TO DETAIL

A red glove glows in the light as a fighter awaits his turn in the ring. "You can see a fighter by the way he moves and how he wraps his hands," said Tony Serrano. "Some are just born to fight."

SHADOW BOXER

Trainer Tony Serrano lets the light in as he opens up the Santa Ana Boxing Club. "In the ring, you're all alone in there, its just you," said Serrano.

HANDS UP

Ricardo Bravo, 11, strikes a fighter's pose at the club. Bravo comes to the club to learn to fight, but also for the exercise.

MORE THAN BOXING

In addition to physical training, the Santa Ana Boxing Club also offers tutoring and social welfare assistance. Some kids use the computers for homework, others like to come by and check their myspace profiles after school.

EYE OF THE TIGER

Eduardo Garcia, 15, who is from Los Angeles, but lives in Santa Ana with his grandmother, is a regular at the boxing club.

Dreams don't come easy. Indeed, to make a dream come true, there usually involves a struggle, or, a fight. At the Santa Ana Boxing Club on 4th Street, the fight for a dream happens one round at a time. Some times you win and sometimes you lose, but you keep on fighting.

While the Santa Ana boxers fight for glory in the ring, outside the ropes, trainer and coordinator Anthony Serrano has his dreams too.

"I want someday to have a professional boxer point down and say, that's where it all started, at that little ghetto gym," said Serrano who has been training boxers since 1992.

The SABC also serves the community in more ways than recreational. City youth who were on living on the streets or had substance abuse problems, family problems or even homework problems have found help at the SABC.

At the Santa Ana Boxing Club, a diverse group of clientele populates the bottom floor of the white building on 4th street. Though some club members are as young as 11 others look as weathered as the old building's paint. On some days of the week, you may even find officers from the Santa Ana Police Department Gang Unit having a sparing session with one of the trainers.

Anthony Serrano has seen through two young local boxers Alex Garcia and Jose Sanchez in world championship competition, though they didn’t win, they faught hard.

Dreams don’t come easy, but you have to keep fighting. “Just like life, in boxing when you want something, you have to go for it, “ said Serrano.

Santa Ana, California

2007-09-26T18:27:00.001-07:00

My rainy doorstep in Silverado

2007-09-25T14:47:00.000-07:00

Santa Ana Boxing Club

2007-09-25T14:38:00.000-07:00

The Orange County Moon Festival

2007-09-22T19:43:00.000-07:00

Angels and Mariners

2007-09-22T11:27:00.000-07:00

Kelly Slater Wins Boost Mobile Pro

2007-09-16T08:17:00.001-07:00

A crop of Timmy by Caravaggio Gardner

2007-09-09T21:50:00.001-07:00

23rd Tall Ships Festival, Dana Point, California

2007-09-09T16:29:00.000-07:00

Timmy Curran: Surfer cuts new album

2007-09-09T16:27:00.000-07:00

Tony Serrano mentor and knockout coach

2007-08-31T23:35:00.000-07:00

Santa Ana Boxing Club

Home Sweet Home

2007-08-21T20:30:00.000-07:00

Clear desert light. Thank God for the desert.

Shitty day at the Jetty

2007-08-17T21:55:00.000-07:00

Photo by Eddie Joe Rodriguez

Yeah so we ended up doing almost two miles of walk on the jagged jetty in Newport Beach for something that never ended up happening. I destroyed my camera on the rocks and carried far to much gear out for nothing. The things we do to make a photo.

Downtown Santa Ana

2007-08-17T21:49:00.000-07:00

Hand into the Light

2007-08-16T22:48:00.000-07:00

Arthouse Confidential pt.2

2007-08-16T22:43:00.001-07:00

Arthouse Confidential pt.1

2007-08-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

Fishing in the City

2007-08-15T20:20:00.000-07:00

Yep I'm bored again

2007-08-12T23:54:00.000-07:00

Waiting for the sheets to dry so I can get to bed. have to photograph the director of Mercedes-Benz design at the design studio in Irvine tomorrow.

Vic Martin meets his family

2007-08-11T11:58:00.003-07:00

Vic Martin embraces with his step-mom, Joanie Clemment in Anaheim on August, 11th. Martin was abandoned as a child and never knew who his father was. At 30 years old, he decided to look for his biological father. He tracked down the Web site of a motorcycle club, of which dad was a member. Through the site, he found his uncle and found out his father had died.

Young Marksman

2007-08-11T11:58:00.001-07:00

Dr. Fink: Cancer doctor and her healing dog

2007-08-08T22:49:00.000-07:00

Dana Point Outrigger race

2007-08-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

I shot this fast as my stomach was fighting me the whole way. thanks to a samich I ate after the fair at starbucks the previous night.

Reporter tries hand at being rodeo clown

2007-08-03T22:13:00.000-07:00

X Games...Yawn

2007-08-03T15:08:00.000-07:00

Downtown LA Skyline

Since it's ESPN, they don't cater to any other coverage but their own. No point in covering.

Wounded Warriors: Camp Pendleton Marin Corps. Base

2007-08-01T20:14:00.001-07:00

UCI Cancer Research Lab Fellowship

2007-08-01T20:07:00.000-07:00

Betsy Wan, 19, a student from Washington University in St. Louis, works with test samples in a cancer research lab at UC Irvine

Brian Luk, 18, of Irvine examines an agarose gel during his daily lab duties at UC Irvine.

Left to my own devices

2007-07-30T20:30:00.000-07:00

yep, I think this is a little over the top. This is what you get with a bored photographer with no money and almost no time to relax. Can't pull these type photos at the paper. Shame! I am not a fan of strobes, but you can do some chiaroscuro style work with them when done right.

Corporate Photography

2007-07-30T20:21:00.000-07:00

WebVisible knew exactly what they wanted to see. I gave them that and a conservative variation outside the office. Kirstin here is the boss and i believe she looks it.

Evening at the Ballet

2007-07-30T20:16:00.000-07:00

This is from a premier performance of "Sleeping Beauty," I think a week ago. Maybe two.

Covering Graffiti

2007-07-28T22:25:00.001-07:00

Adam Corn, YuGiOh Champion portrait

2007-07-27T23:30:00.000-07:00

Silverado Rodeo week 3

2007-07-27T20:48:00.000-07:00

Joe Uddo from "Pioneertown" story

2007-07-27T15:18:00.000-07:00

Adam Corn, YuGiOh Champion at ComicCon

2007-07-26T14:48:00.000-07:00

Orange County Fair

2007-07-25T19:47:00.001-07:00

2007-07-25T10:38:00.000-07:00

OC Register Intern Adventure

2007-07-24T22:34:00.001-07:00

Free Golf Lessons for Blind Children

Surfing for former troubled youth

Kitty Shelter
Cowboys of Silverado

Tai Chi Scientist

Prom for Cancer Kids

Fourth of July, Huntington Beach

John Wayne Airport Traverlers

Great American Campout
Murder Suspect Returned to Custody