My Photo Guides

Mercury Transit Coming May 9! This is an image of the Venus transit of the sun, June 5, 2012.  The planet Mercury will cross in front of the sun as seen from earth on May 9, 2016.  A solar filter can be used to photograph this event safely.  I've added notes on capturing this sort of event on my blog:  http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2014/04/07/venus-transit-across-the-face-of-the-sun-june-5-2012/ #astrophotography   #teamcanon   #solar   #transit   #Mercury

Photograph Jets Up Close in Death Valley In addition to getting cool photos of jets up close, you might also catch the formation of water condensing on the wings and trailing off of the wingtips: "Condensation of water vapor in wing tip vortices is most common on aircraft flying at high angles of attack, such as fighter aircraft in high g maneuvers, or airliners taking off and landing on humid days."   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip_vortices Full post: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2016/04/20/photograph-jets-up-close-in-death-valley/ #aviationphotography   #ANG   #144FW   #NationalGuard   #AirForce   Air National Guard

Sunset Dust Storm Over Mesquite Flat Dunes Sunday evening in Death Valley National Park, California. It was interesting trying to cook dinner over a fire in that wind! #deathvalley #nationalpark #landscapephotography Death Valley Workshops

Shell Creek Road Wildflowers Shell Creek Road is another place worth checking on a Southern California wildflower tour in April. It's southeast of the town of Paso Robles. It's covered on page 177 of my guidebook, "Photographing California Vol 2- South": http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/photographing-california-travel-guidebook/ #california   #landscapephotography   #pasorobles

International Chardonnay Symposium May 12-14, Pismo Beach I've always found wine tastings to be a great way to find great wines. I've attended ones focused on zinfandal, pinot noir, Rhone varietal wines, but somehow I missed until now The Chardonnay Symposium:  http://thechardonnaysymposium.com/ They're having a drawing for a $5000 getaway including the event, so if you like wine, click on the image below to enter. #winetasting   #chardonnay   #VisitCA   #VisitSLO  Visit Avila Beach California Highway 1 Discovery Route  http://basicfront.easypromosapp.com/p/214462?uid=634360242&lc=eng

When Picasa is dropped in favor of Google Photos, will the URLs for existing photos uploaded to Picasa Web Albums remain the same? The easiest way to add photos to blog posts on Blogger is to select photos on Picasa Web Albums.  I have hundreds of blog posts going back many years which rely on URLs referencing photos in Picasa Web Albums. Moving on from Picasa Friday, February 12, 2016 10:00 AM http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html "Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos" http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html

Hospice du Rhone Event in Paso Robles, April 14 - 16 The Hospice du Rhone wine testing event coming up in 11 days will be held in Paso Robles, convenient to wine lovers in both Northern and Southern California.  I've attended multiple Rhone Rangers and Hospice du Rhone wine tasting events in the past, so I can help you decide where to start among the 239 wineries from around the world that will be pouring wines made from syrah, grenache, viognier, and other Rhone varietal grapes: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2016/04/wines-to-taste-at-hospice-du-rhone.html On your way to and from the event, consider checking out the wildflowers blooming profusely now at Carrizo Plain National Monument and in the Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area! #wine   #winetasting   #pasorobles   #california   #visitca  Visit San Luis Obispo County Visit California

April California Wildflower Road Trip One of my favorite road trips ever was a tour of California Wildflowers sites in the spring, five years ago today: http://activesole.blogspot.com/2016/04/california-spring-wildflower-sites-April.html I looked up some photos from that trip to decide whether I should follow the same route again this week. On my blog I display a few of those newly post-processed photos, and discuss yesterday's wildflower report from the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve. #california   #wildflowers   #landscapephotography   #visitca

Figueroa Mountain Wildflower Report This week Helen Tarbet of Los Padres National Forest will be releasing a new wildflower report for Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area. Figueroa Mountain sits above the town of Los Olivos on California's Central Coast. I've included photos of some of the wildflowers you might see in an expanded blog post on my Web site, illustrating the latest wildflower report with some of my photos from past visits to Figueroa Mountain:  http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2016/04/01/figueroa-mountain-wildflowers-are-blooming-now/ #landscapephotography   #southerncalifornia   #californiacoast   #seeSB  Visit Santa Barbara Visit the Santa Ynez Valley Visit California  #wildflowers   #california  

Figueroa Mountain Wildflowers Are Blooming Now If you missed the Death Valley "super bloom", don't worry, many other areas in the state are starting to bloom now. The Los Padres National Forest recently recommended Figueroa Mountain Recreation Area, located north of Santa Barbara, above the Santa Ynez Valley and the town of Los Olivos. Here are some photos from the mountain, along with directions on how to get there:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2016/04/california-wildflowers-in-april.html   #santabarbara   #santaynezvalley   #losolivos   #wildflowers   #california  Visit Santa Barbara  #landscapephotography