My Photo Guides

Seventeen Palms The 17 Palms Oasis in Anza-Borrego State Park in Southern California. #anzaborrego   #anzaborregostatepark   #landscapephotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

It's that California Desert Time of Year! New photos added to my Anza-Borrego State Park album. #anzaborrego    #anzaborregodesert    #anzaborregostatepark  2012 Anza-Borrego  

Spring in Anza-Borrego State Park I was looking to see if G+ had built a "Story" for the trip Lori Hibbett and I made to Anza-Borrego in March 2012 when we met Lori Carey, Elena Northroup, John H. Moore, J. Rae Chip, Angela Andrieux, Tony Payne, Cat Evans, Ron Niebrugge and others (Kimber The Dog): https://plus.google.com/103466773231418285796/posts I found a G+ Story from our visit from 2011 instead, when we met Richard Bitonti and Tom Grubbe.  We meet such cool people over the years through photography!   I encountered better wildflower blooms in Anza-Borrego in 2008 and 2009 ( https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=Anza%20Borrego&sort=interestingness-desc&user_id=23183960%40N00 ), but I was travelling in an AWD minivan back then, so we found much cooler locations in the park in 20ll and 2012 after I swapped the van for an 4WD SUV and we could explore more of the park. I ran across this 2011 trip while wrapping up the Imperial Sand Dunes section for my guidebook yester

Story from NASA Orion EFT-1 Launch The G+ Story created from my trip with Lori Hibbett to see the NASA Orion EFT-1 launch last month.  If you'd like to see a launch tomorrow, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, is scheduled for 6:20 a.m. PST (9:20 a.m. EST) Friday, Jan. 30, with a three-minute launch window. The launch of the United Launch Alliance/Delta II rocket was scrubbed Thursday due to a violation of upper-level wind constraints. Launch managers have initiated a 24-hour recycle. The weather forecast for this launch window shows a 90 percent chance of favorable conditions.  NASATV coverage will be available at this link:   http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2015-043&utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NASAJPL&utm_content=smap20150129 #orionspacecraft   #NASA   #nasasocial   #OrionEFT1   https://plus.google.com/107459220492917008623/stories/380f967e-bb02-3672-9dfe-3d

Four Amigos Friendly burros in the Eastern Sierra.  I've placed this image for sale on Fine Art America:  http://fineartamerica.com/featured/fuzzy-faces-jeff-sullivan.html?newartwork=true #easternsierra   #burros   #California   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Images of Asteroid BL86 (357439) I'm glad that i caught it Sunday night, since we have clouds here tonight.  I wasn't sure that i'd be able to catch it at all, but the time-laspse video turned out well.  I'll try again tomorrow if we have clear enough weather.

Massive Asteroid BL86 Approaches Earth Here's a composite photo to go with the time-lapse video I posted this morning of mountain-sized Asteroid 2004 BL46 (357439) as it approached earth last night.  Fortunately this pass was a near-miss, coming no closer than 3X the distance to the moon.  That's still very close in terms of the vastness of space, and it'll be interesting to see how close it comes on its next lap 8000 years from now. This still image was assembled from the first 60 images I captured, the video clips from 119 separate images of the sky.  Click on my name to see all of my posts to see my post this morning with the video.  I also posted photos and video of Comet Lovejoy in recent days. The sequences of photos of the asteroid last night were taken with a full frame DSLR and 70-200 mm lens, on a star-tracking mount. The evening sky is becoming bright with the moonlight, so I lowered the they ISO sensitivity to 2000. I tried a second camera using an 85mm lens at

Comet Lovejoy Time-lapse Video (4 nights) I captured Comet Lovejoy at 28 mm, 30 mm, 320 mm and 640 mm so far.  See the resulting video here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-sullivan/four-nights-with-comet-lo_b_6509040.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-sullivan/four-nights-with-comet-lo_b_6509040.html

Images Added to my Mono County Album I'm really fortunate to live in such a beautiful area!

Morning Light in the Eastern Sierra The Eastern Sierra is dominated by the towering Sierra Nevada looming overhead just to the west. #easternsierra   #monocounty   #landscapephotography

Comet Lovejoy: 2.5 Hours of Time-lapse Video, 640 mm Focal Length The video I embedded in my blog post linked below is pretty cool... I can't wait to shoot the comet again tonight! #cometlovejoy   #timelapsevideo   #science   #news   #astrophotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Comet Lovejoy Last Night Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy has reached its maximum brightness.  This is a photo of it last night, as seen under the dark skies of the Eastern Sierra.  Knowing where to look (near the star cluster Pleiades) I was able to just make it out with my eyes, then find it with a 70-200 mm lens. It showed up well in photos captured on a full frame DSLR with 16 - 35 mm lens at 30 mm focal length with no star tracking mount, but for the 200 mm shots I used a tracking mount so the stars wouldn't "drag" in the photo from the rotation of the earth. #science   #news   #astronomy   #astrophotography   #photography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Sunrise This Morning Bald eagles arrived at Topaz Lake in the Eastern Sierra this morning. They pass through at this time of year to clean up after calf births on nearby cattle ranches. #easternsierra   #landscapephotography   #naturephotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Sunset Reflection at Mono lake Sunset last night at Mono Lake last night, Thursday, January 15.  Here's an album with more of my Mono County photos on G+: https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/6071220119120462289 #monolakephotography   #monocounty   #easternsierra   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Golden Hour on the Fremont River The Fremont River in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.   I've added a few dozen more Utah images to my album on G+: https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/5671944738818324945 #capitolreefnationalpark   #utahphotography   #landscapephotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Capitol Reef National Park I added to my Utah album 9 photos from visits to Capitol Reef National Park in 2006 - 2009.  I hope to revisit the park later this year. #landscapephotography   #Utah   #utahlandscapephotography  

Early summer Milky Way over Bodie's Standard Mill I didn't need to adjust the white balance or color in this photo.  The green in the sky is airglow, produced by the excitation of Oxygen atoms.  Our eyes can't quite pick it up, but the camera "sees" it easily.   The Milky Way will be in a similar position for our June 13 workshop in 2015: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ Bodie Photo Workshops   #nightphotography   #nightphotographyworkshops

Bodie at Sunset A fresh edit (Lightroom and Photomatix) for a photo captured during one of our Bodie workshops in 2014.  We have our best schedule ever lined up for 2015: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ Bodie Photo Workshops  #nightphotographyworkshops   #Bodiephotographyworkshops   Album:  https://plus.google.com/b/104896696773020847048/photos/104896696773020847048/albums/5878704206161384193

Ghost of a Wild West Day Here's another image from the nice sunset we enjoyed in the "ghost town" of Bodie on Labor Day Weekend last year.  We'll have several photography workshops in this authentic Wild West mining town again in 2015r: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ To see more images from our visits to Bodie, here's an album containing over 250 photos:  https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/sets/72157630926160354/ Bodie Photo Workshops  #photographyworkshop   #California   #BodiePhotographyWorkshops

Late August Milky Way in Bodie We'll have a similar position for the Milky Way for our workshop this year on September 5-6 this year:  http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ #nightphotography   #nightphotographyworkshop   #ghosttownphotography  Bodie Photo Workshops

Comet Lovejoy, above and to the right of Orion If you're familiar with the constellation Orion, shown in this picture, Comet Lovejoy (the blue-green fuzzy dot with faint white tail) can be found above and to the right of Orion over the next week or two.  Comet Lovejoy will move up in the sky a bit more each night. This photo of Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy was captured two nights ago facing the eastern horizon at 7:21 pm, January 7, 2014.  It's a vertical crop from a landscape orientation shot captured at a wide 24 mm focal length. Photograph Comet Lovejoy in January http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/01/photograph-comet-c2014-q2-lovejoy.html #science   #news   #astronomy   #astrophotography   #nightphotography    www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Desert Dawn The temperature was cold and the winds were strong in Death Valley on the last two nights of 2014, but the sunrise light was worth getting up for. Originally shared by Death Valley Workshops Desert Light Morning light last week in Death Valley National Park. #deathvalley   #deathvalleyphotography   #deathvalleyphotoworkshop http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/death-valley-photography-workshop-2013/

Light Painting in Death Valley It gets dark so early at this time of year, I decided to kill some time while in Stovepipe Wells last week... Originally shared by Death Valley Workshops Under the Moonlight in Death Valley Light painting an old fire engine in Death Valley, January 2015.  For more night photography from Death Valley, see this album on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116469806647181209109/photos/116469806647181209109/albums/6100922150074844129 #deathvalley   #DeathValleyNationalPark   #nightphotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

How is G+ Doing For You? Are your posts getting seen?  Do you see enough of the posts that your contacts make?  How does the overall site feel? See the comments in the original post for an interesting discussion. #shakeupthestream Originally shared by Tamara Pruessner New Day's Hope I have been doing a lot of thinking about how my main stream no longer shows everyone, or even a few and their newest posts, about how my own posts get increasingly smaller interaction, and how if my posts are doing that, then everyone's are.  I think the algorithm that governs what we see and what others see of our own stuff has gotten too restrictive.  And it frustrates me to no end - especially when I have 100 new posts in my stream and most are either 24 hours old, something I have already seen (and plussed or commented) or both.  Fresh isn't happening anymore and it is FRUSTRATING. I don't normally notify anyone of my posts but for this, I am (and I am not even sure how many will get t

See Comet Lovejoy in January This was taken last night, and viewing conditions will remain strong for at least a couple of weeks more: http://www.activesole.blogspot.com/2015/01/photograph-comet-c2014-q2-lovejoy.html   #cometlovejoy   #science   #astronomy   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

See Comet Lovejoy Tonight Here's a quick test image from last night.  You can just see the comet's tail to the left, but the nearly-full moon interfered.  Tonight should be much better without the moon.  I can't wait!  To find the comet in the sky, see also "Finding Lovejoy: How to Follow the Path of Comet 2014 Q2 Through January" by Universe Today: http://www.universetoday.com/117794/finding-lovejoy-how-to-follow-the-path-of-comet-2014-q2-through-january/ #science   #news   #breakingnews   #astronomy   #astrophotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com