Your Photos on QUEST: Cris Benton

Recommended QUEST Resources

• Flickr.com: share your photos with QUEST

  The producers on QUEST aren't the only ones documenting science, environment and nature in Northern California. We know that there are lots of viewers like you who love doing the same. Learn how to participate! Come view and join our photo group on flickr.com.

• Cris Benton's Winning YPOQ submission on flickr.com

  See Cris Benton's fantastic set of Kite Aerial Photographs of South San Francisco Bay wowed our KQED QUEST editorial staff. His winning submission did a wonderful job of expressing a sense of locale, with a passion for nature, via a process that captures something unexpected and essential.

• QUEST Science Blog: Cameras that Float Through the Air

   

• Your Photos on QUEST - Erin Malone

  Join QUEST in our latest photography feature about viewers like you who love documenting science, environment and nature imagery here in the Bay Area. This week, meet Erin Malone, who makes beautiful, impressionistic images in a place that many overlook or see as ugly-- the subtly hued mud & marsh of South San Francisco Bay.

• Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge Exploration

  The nation's first urban National Wildlife Refuge, it's 30,000 acres of open bay, salt pond, salt marsh, mudflat, upland, and vernal pool habitats are constantly changing.

Additional Links

• Current TV: In the Kite's Eye

  In this lovely short film from Current TV, Cris' 23-year-old son Charlie is learning his dad's unique craft of aerial kite photography and going out on his own.

• Hidden Ecologies Blog

  The Hidden Ecologies project looks at places -- starting with several transitional geographies along San Francisco Bay -- in ways that juxtapose scales, collect different points of view, and encourage the sharing of ideas. One of the places Hidden Ecologies visits is Alviso Slough. Drop by and pay Dr. Wayne Lanier and and Cris Benton a visit.