Graceful Swimmer Pier 39 Fisherman’s Wharf, November 2007
For all the lumbering sea lions do on the pier, it is amazing how agile and graceful they can be in the water. (via Robby Edwards)

San Francisco Golden Gate National Recreation Area, November 2007
This view of San Francisco with the Bay Bridge in the background was taken from Fort Point National Historic Site underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. (via Robby Edwards)

Q: Do you think technology is changing that? That a good reporter will always find a venue because there are so many media outlets now?
A: No, but I do think it is kind of sad when everybody who owns a laptop thinks they’re a journalist and doesn’t understand the ethics. We do have to have some sense of what’s right and wrong in this job. Of how far we can go. We don’t make accusations without absolute proof. We’re not prosecutors. We don’t assume.
Q: So if there’s this amateur league of journalists out there, trying to do what you do…
A: It’s dangerous.

Helen Thomas seems to think that ‘Freedom of the Press’ applies to approved journalists only. Interview with Helen Thomas from The Huffington Post