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Wheaton & Hollis Hotel Reflection After a rain shower last Sunday night in Bodie State Historic Park, California. #photographyworkshop   #nightphotography   #abandonedplaces   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Here's another shot from the cool stormy conditions we enjoyed in Bodie last Sunday. #nightphotography   #photographyworkshop   #longexposure  Bodie Photo Workshops  Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Photography Clearing Storm Long Exposure It rained for an hour immediately before this shot, but last Sunday was easily one of the coolest workshop sessions we've had in Bodie (and they're all pretty cool).  Can't wait to show you more! #nightphotography   #photographyworkshop   #abandoned   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Bodie Photo Workshops

This was my last shot before the rain started around 8 pm last Sunday, but the overall night was amazing! Originally shared by Bodie Photo Workshops Arriving Storm It started raining immediately after this shot, and it rained for an hour, but last Sunday ended up being one of the coolest workshop sessions we've had in Bodie.  Can't wait to show you more. #photographyworkshop   #abandonedplaces   #ghosttown   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

DripThat App Releases on IOS Nice pictures of Bodie on that new app!  ;) App: https://itunes.apple.com/app/dripthat/id982911292 Corrected link to find me there once the app is installed: https://dripthat.com/pr?id=jeffsullivan   An Android version is coming soon as well. I was #sponsored to try out the beta, will share my thoughts in the coming weeks now that it's out. Originally shared by Mobile Nations Dripthat is a new social network and app that lets you easily share photos and videos with family and friends. With Dripthat, you share little "drips," small collections of photos and videos. You can choose to share drips publicly, or with a specific group of friends and family. Dripthat makes it… http://www.imore.com/dripthat-lets-you-share-your-favorite-moments-friends-and-family

Clearing Storm Long Exposure It rained for an hour immediately before this shot, but last Sunday was easily one of the coolest workshop sessions we've had in Bodie (and they're all pretty cool).  Can't wait to show you more! #nightphotography   #photographyworkshop   #abandoned   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Bodie Photo Workshops

Ghost Town Reflection Under Moonlit Clouds I had a great workshop in Bodie on Sunday night.  I'll try to write up more on it in the coming days. Bodie Photo Workshops  #ghosttown   #nightphotography   #Canon

Brewing Storm The weather looked perfect for a great sunset when we arrived in Bodie for the night portion of our workshop last Sunday, but we soon found out that there were other things in store for us...   #LGG4   #Android   #photographyworkshop   Bodie Photo Workshops

I don't cross-post to my pages and my personal account often, but the photo and video I added to this blog post are pretty nice, and G+ doesn't seem to show blog posts to many of my contacts: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-photo-workshop-day-and-night-in-bodie.html Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Milky Way Rising Behind Joshua Trees The Milky Way rises to the east behind Joshua Trees, an iconic indicator of the Mojave Desert ecosystem. I've added this photo and the time-lapse video created from the same photos to my blog post showing photos and video that I captured: Time-lapse of the Milky Way Rising in the Mojave Desert http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/time-lapse-of-milky-way-rising-in.html www.MyPhotoGuides.com #nightphotography   #starrynights   #travelblogger   #photographer

A Day in a Wild West Mining Town The California Gold Rush was started by the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.  In 1959 W. S. Bodey discovered gold east of the Sierra Nevada, and the rest is history.  Fortunately we can explore that history due to local families preserving the town until it became Bodie State Historic Park in 1962.  The town is preserved in a state of "arrested decay", and the interiors of the buildings have been left largely untouched for over 50 years.   We head out there from before dawn, and spend a long day with sunrise, sunset, two golden hours, six hours of access to interiors, and from the time the park closes at 6 pm into the night at 1 am.  It's a marathon, but one full of unique photographic opportunities.   I've created a new blog post outlining a typical schedule: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-photo-workshop-day-and-night-in-bodie.html #ghosttown   #abandonedplaces   #photographyworkshops   Bodie Photo Works

Another Dozen Bodie Photos I added photos to my Bodie album to have them available for blog posts. Blog: www.MyPhotoGuides.com #abandoned   #ghosttown   #photographyworkshop  

Milky Way Rising Behind Joshua Trees The Milky Way rises to the east behind Joshua Trees, an iconic indicator of the Mojave Desert ecosystem. I've added this photo and the time-lapse video created from the same photos to my blog post showing photos and video that I captured: Time-lapse of the Milky Way Rising in the Mojave Desert http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/time-lapse-of-milky-way-rising-in.html www.MyPhotoGuides.com #nightphotography   #starrynights   #travelblogger   #photographer

1937 Chevy Under Partial Moonlight This is the '37 Chevy in Bodie under a crescent moon during our May 3, 2014 night photography workshop.  We'll have slightly brighter conditions for our workshop in Bodie this weekend, which should be great for light painting: www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #nightphotography   #lightpainting   #photographyworkshop   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Just Started Playing Around With Filters And they definitely seem to go over well on Instagram! See you there?   http://instagram.com/jeffsullivanphotography #Instagram   #socialmedia   https://instagram.com/p/2wme3nvH55/?taken-by=jeffsullivanphotography

No Unicorns, but Plenty of Rainbows! My fun with the new LG G4 continues with these rainbows last night.  I've added seven more photos to my LG G4 album, and there's a new write-up on my blog: At the End of the Rainbow: More LG G4 Sample Photos http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/rainbow-lg-g4-sample-photos.html #landscapephotography   #travelblogger   #sponsored   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

At the End of the Rainbow: More LG G4 Sample Photos New sample images from the LG G4 in my latest blog post: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/rainbow-lg-g4-sample-photos.html   The phone was sent to me to raise awareness for the #G4Preview  tour across the U.S. this month.  See the tour schedule here and enter for a chance to win one:  https://explore.t-mobile.com/lg-g4.html?cmpid=SOC_SM_LNLGG4PRRG_Z0J8OEPHRYR9427&003=6642122 #landscapephotography T Mobile LG USA Mobile #sponsored   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Storm Chasing in Nevada At Topaz Lake on the California/Nevada border, Lori Hibbett and I had a storm pass by earlier this month.  We decided to chase it east into Smith Valley to see if we could catch some lightning photos.  We didn't catch the storm there; it continued over the next set of mountains to sit south of Yerington.  So we headed through Wilson Canyon and headed south, ending up in the Cambridge Hills as the skies cleared towards the setting sun, and sunset color spread under the storm clouds.  The storm was to the west, the sun was shining under it from the east, and we were under the edge, which ran north and south.  We had some great opportunities as the sun went from yellow to orange, and the clouds took on shades at the blue end of the spectrum.    We stuck around to capture a time-lapse of the clouds moving as the storm dissipated, and as the nearly-full moon rose behind them. See the rest of the story in my new blog post: Storm Chasing in Nevada http://activesole

Storm Chasing in Nevada I captured too many nice pictures on this evening to post them separately, so you get them in a story in a new blog post:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/storm-chasing-in-nevada.html #landscapephotography   #Nevada   #weatherphotography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Exploring an American Ghost Town I received a preview unit of the new LG G4 smartphone last week, just in time for a workshop I was leading last Wednesday in Bodie.  The first photo is an unedited HDR mode photo, the rest went through my usual workflow of making a few minor adjustments in Adobe Lightroom.   These were some of my first photos taken on the phone, so I mainly used Auto and HDR modes.  The HDR mode was critical to eliminating blown out skies and evening out the uneven lighting indoors.   Over the following days I started exploring the option to shoot close-ups, work with RAW file output.  The RAW output offers increases quality when you have time to post-process it, and a matching JPG for when you don't: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2015/05/18/new-lg-g4-smartphone-review-raw-file-output/ I have 34 samples in my LG G4 album so far, mostly from the afternoon walking around Bodie:  https://plus.google.com/photos/+JeffreySullivan/albums/6150346956545894305 I