Former Vice President Al Gore made a stop in Marin county at Dominican University on Monday evening to talk about his new book "Our Choice."
In the book Gore argues that every one of us are responsible to stop climate change and global warming.
Compared to how Gore was portrayed in the 2000 Presidential election, he was a good speaker who convincingly and strongly argued his point of view about climate change and threw in good nature barbs and ad-libs about himself that made the crowd laugh out loud several times.
Since this was a guy speaking on a stage photo shoot, I tried to get several different angles for the article and hopefully some good expressions of Gore speaking.
I also tried some other shots which I am not sure totally worked but was worth the chance.
Afterwords, Gore signed books for the overflowing audience.
There actually was too many people to fit into Angelico Hall on the university campus, so they had to watch via television at an nearby building. The line for people waiting to have their book signed by Gore lined clear outside the building.
In the end I tend to agree with Gore. Climate change is a huge threat and it really is up to all of us to become active and combat it. And we need to start now.
You can read the story about it
here.
Like the US Soccer team I started warming up for South Africa by photographing the friendly match between the USA and Honduras at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. on Saturday.
It has been a little while since I had photographed a soccer game so I felt a little bit out of sorts at the start of the game, just like the USA team itself.
Had a good group of USA fans but Jimmy Conrad was ejected 20 minutes into the game and it went downhill for the USA after that. They ended up conceding 3 goals.
At least they got a consolation goal back from Clarence Goodson to give them a chance at tying the game up.
But in the end the game was a warm up for me and the team and it was great to be back on the field again. The World Cup will be here before you know it!
