We recently upgraded the photo portion of our website allowing for easy posting of photo albums. So I took this opportunity to put up an album of my favorite photos going way back to 1979 when I was a science student at Berkeley and biked over to the source of a column of smoke.

I figure that this event must have been my first attempt at shooting "spot news". I imagined the it could be newsworthy, so I fired up the VW bus and drove over to the San Fransisco Chronicle with the undeveloped roll of film. I sat in the photo department, not savvy enough to be pumping the photogs for tips on how to shoot better, and a guy who looked through the roll said "he's got a pretty good shot". They made a print, gave me the negatives, took down my info for payment, and the next day I had my first publication in a big paper.

Then I discovered that I had misplaced the negatives. Argh! But someone in the Chronicle photo department was kind enough to make me a 4x5 (!) copy negative of the print that Gary Fong had made. The above image is from a flatbed scan of that negative, so the photo credit should read "Peter Haley/Gary Fong".

None of my other favorite photos are so compromised. You can see them in the "portfolios" section of our website, or follow this link.