My Photo Guides

Perseid Meteor Shower 2010-2012 The annual Perseid meteor shower is considered to be active from July 13th to August 26th, peaking around the night of August 12-13.  The weather and moon phase don't always cooperate to offer great viewing conditions, so it can take time to accumulate enough photos to put together a long time-lapse video.   In 2014 I assembled time-lapse clips from the previous recent years to set to this song "While the Sun Was Sleeping" by Life Audience. #perseid   #meteorshower   #astronomy   #science   #astrophotography   #nightphotography   #timelapse   www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan 2014 Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight! In honor of the 2014 Perseid Meteor shower peaking tonight, I offer you time-lapse clips from the 2010-2012 Perseids in the first 1:49 of this video.  All of the footage in it was compiled during my travels in recent years.  I hope that you enjoy it! You can see more of my time-lapse videos on my YouTu

Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Coming Aug 11-14 As I mentioned with my time-lapse video share yesterday, the earth passes through the comet debris that causes the Perseid meteor shower for a few weeks, but the activity peaks around the night of August 12-13.  The meteor activity is high for a while on either side of the peak so it can be productive to look in the August 11-14 timeframe. #astronomy   #astrophotography   #Perseid   #meteorshower   www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Perseid Meteor Shower Composite, 2013 I'm still working on my images from the Camelopardalid meteor shower last night.  So in the meantime to kill some time while last night's images process, I produced this composite image showing 40 meteors from 4 hours of the Perseid meteor shower early in the morning of August 12, 2013. These meteors appear in my time-lapse video of the 2013 Perseid Meteor shower on YouTube: Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 Here's the rest of my Astrophotography

Blast from the G+ Past This album was created on G+ by Google, from photos included in my Blogger blog posts from 2006 through 2011.  When I posted this album on August 29, 2011 I had 3403 contacts and the post received 90 +1s and over 30 shares.  G+ was truly a vibrant community then.  Yesterday with over 2,000,000 contacts, ranked #52 on G+ among individuals in the U.S. by CircleCount ( http://www.circlecount.com/p/+JeffreySullivan? ), most active post had 42 +1s and no post had more than 1 share.   Yesterday on Facebook, Robert Scoble said, "When I speak around the world I ask people what social networks they use. Nearly no one is on Google+. Google finally is realizing they lost.  I don't see good things ahead for Google+." Having invested a chunk of my life to the community, to the platform, I hope that Yonatan Zunger and the Google engineering teams can resurrect G+, but I don't think that the core strategic problems or resolutions lie with YouTube or other Goog

Revisiting the Original G+ It's nice to see the engagement and dialog that was present and possible early on on G+, like this post from August 30, 2011.  What might have become of G+ if content, engagement and friendships had been allowed to grow organically? This was one of three albums of photos I assembled from a month of travels around Turkey the year before, in Istanbul, along the coast, and to ancient sites away from the coast.  The trip was a wonderful experience, fueling my desire to travel more as time and finances permit. #travelphotography   #adventure   #travel   #Turkey   www.MyPhotoGuides.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Istanbul, Turkey I've been to Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, so I wanted to try something a little more adventurous this time. I heard a fair amount of warnings before the trip (given all the propaganda Americans have been fed over the past 10 years, plus State Department warnings), but the people were very welcoming and

Annual Perseid Meteor Shower Coming Aug 11-14 The earth passes through the comet debris that causes the Perseid meteor shower for a few weeks, but the activity peaks around the night of August 12-13.  The meteor activity is high for a while on either side of the peak so it can be productive to look in the August 11-14 timeframe. Create a Time-lapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html #astronomy   #astrophotography   #tutorial   #Perseid   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 - Time-lapse Astrophotography Over six minutes of footage from recent nights, set to the InFiction remix of David Bowie's "Let's Dance", as featured in the recent Kia commercial.  For best results and to see the most meteors, be sure and watch it on YouTube and use the option at the bottom to watch it in HD, either 720P or 1080P HD resolution.   I've given this a f

I'm still getting used to the new Collections functionality.  Some of my shares to Collects get a lot of visibility and engagement, now most seem not to.  The same is true for my G+ posts through too, so I'll try and save a few more posts to Collections and see if that results in anything positive. Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Winter in Wine Country Winter is a great time for photographers to visit wine country.  The symmetry of the rows in the vineyards can add patterns or leading lines to your compositions.  If you're into wine it's also a great time to chat with winemakers, as their Fall harvest is tucked safely away into barrels and the vines are dormant.  As Spring arrives, wild mustard often colors the space between the vines.   In California we're particularly lucky to have a wide selection of wine regions, producing an incredible variety of world class wines.  Most wineries offer hours when they're open for tasting, and with many of the wine region

New Photographing California Guidebook Here's the preview copy I received over the weekend, with other books in the series by the same publisher.  Sign up on my blog to hear when hardcopies and ebooks are available, including author-signed copies: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-California-landscape-photography-guidebook.html Thanks to Lori Carey Phillip Colla Tom Grubbe Lori Hibbett Daniel Leifheit QT Luong Garry McCarthy John H. Moore Elena Northroup Steve Sieren Sairam Sundaresan for supplying photos for the book, and to J. Rae Chip for Salton Sea area guidance.  You're all mentioned in the book in the Acknowledgements section. I met many of the contributors in my travels and/or through photowalks.  This would have been a different, probably harder and less fun project without the camaraderie of meeting new and old friends along the way.  Both the photowalks I announced on G+, and G+ as a communication platform in general, facilitated that process, so I owe Google

New California Photography Guidebook, Chapter Covers I received a preview hardcopy of my new 320-page guidebook to California landscape photography locations.  If you'd like to be notified when it goes on sale soon, you can sign up via the form in this blog post:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/07/new-California-landscape-photography-guidebook.html I'll offer both fast-shipping copies as well as author-signed ones, and an ebook version will be available as well. #California   #landscapephotography   #travel   #book   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Night in Bodie Under Broken Clouds Main Street Bodie reflection from our July 11 night photography workshop.  The clouds took a while to clear on this night, but it provided the opportunity to capture some unique photos! #nightphotography   #photographyworkshops   #Bodie   wwwlJeffSullivanPhotography.com

Blue Hour at Mono Lake Clouds moving over tufa rock formations at Mono Lake last night. #landscapephotography   #easternsierra   #monocounty   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Sunrise in the Golden Trout Wilderness Clouds from Hurricane Dolores off the coast of Mexico caught the early morning light last Sunday.  It rained 16 hours on this night, very odd for California in July.   #backpacking   #adventuretravel   #landscapephotography   #california   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Capturing the Light Lori Hibbett captures sunlight hitting the tip of a nearby peak Saturday morning in the Golden Trout Wilderness, California. ‪ #landscapephotography   #backpacking   #highsierra   #LGG4

Before the Storm Saturday morning reflection in the Golden Trout Wilderness, before the "historic storm" delivered record July rainfall to Southern California. ‪ #landscapephotography   #backpacking   #HighSierra   #california   www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Milky Way Revealed This was captured as the afternoon storm clouds were clearing in Bodie last Friday night.  I've opened up registration for separate night or morning interior access workshops in Bodie:   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Bodie Photo Workshops  #photography   #nightphotography   #photographyworkshops

Milky Way Over Bodie Firehouse Bodie Firehouse just after midnight during our June 13 night photography workshop in Bodie.  It looks like we have enough experienced/returning night shooters in our workshops this Saturday to open up a couple of spots for interiors only and night only.  I'll add them to the enrollment buttons later today:   http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ #nightphotography   #photographyworkshops   #ghosttown   #Bodie   Bodie Photo Workshops  www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Shaft of Water and Light Sunset rainbow tonight.

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