My Photo Guides

After Google+ I'm so sorry to see Google+ closing down, I hope to see you all on other services that we use: Instagram @jeffsullivanphotography Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeffSullivanPhotography Twitter @jeffsullphoto, @DSLRastronomy Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/JeffSullivanPhoto Web site: http://www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Prints: https://jeffsullivan.smugmug.com/ Photography workshops: jeffsullivanphotography.com - 2019 Workshop Calendar

Photographing California Groups on Facebook & Flickr I've set up two groups to share landscape photography from the area covered by my landscape photography guidebook "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South." On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1106754962840271/ On Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/3137471@N21/ I'll periodically share new vistas and sites that I find, relative to ones already in there. For more information on my 320-page guidebook in the PhotoTripUSA series by +Laurent Martres, see this page on my Web site: https://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/photographing-california-travel-guidebook/

A lot of people are posting collages of their Top 9 most popular posts on Instagram, but I only put 48 images on Instagram last year, about one per week. I can make a better selection from a deeper collection of images, and show you my Top 10 and more: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2019/01/04/my-top-10-photos-of-2018/

Can a landscape photography benefit from anticipating optimum sun angles? From the looks of this sand dune shot that we anticipated and pursued, it sure seems so! Is a landscape photography workshop compatible with night photography? In the short days of… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/12/16/geminid-meteor-shower-2018-in-death-valley/

With rain falling in Death Valley this morning and more storms lined up in the Pacific to follow, I looked up some of my photos of past instances of lake Manly forming in the flooded Badwater Basin. Ocean temperatures are shaping up to look like we may… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/29/lake-manly-coming-to-death-valley-this-winter/

Bodie w/Eastern Sierra May 31 - June 1, $695: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/product/bodie-w-eastern-sierra-may-29-jun-1/

The image above was a perfect calm fall day in Yosemite Valley. The clouds were just right when I arrived, but much less photogenic moments later. People don’t think of landscape photography as a time-critical endeavor, but as Ansel Adams observed,… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/20/yosemite-fall-colors-photography-workshop/

In the absence of interesting weather, are there optimum lighting conditions on certain dates and times to photograph some sand dunes? One of the advantages of going to the same place over and over again over time is that you can see how the light can… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/19/anticipating-sun-sand-dune-lighting/

I visited Death Valley in late September this year to see what it might be like to run a fall workshop in 2019. Guess what… it was hot! How hot was it? It was so hot, even the rattlesnakes seemed to have heat exhaustion (photo below). High temperatures of… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/17/death-valley-septemberoctober/

In 2018 the Eastern Sierra enjoyed one of its most gradual and orderly fall colors seasons in recent memory. Leaves turned color where they should, when they should, and without major cold and energetic storms moving through, the leaves stayed on the… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/15/eastern-sierra-mono-county-fall-colors-2018/

I’ve shot in Bodie at night nearly 40 times. The Bodie workshop season typically runs late May through mid-October when any storms tend to be convention-driven from daytime heat. So even on stormy days, the sky usually clears up at night. This time, in… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/13/stormy-october-night-bodie/

2018 was another outstanding year for fall color in the Eastern Sierra! The 2019 calendar will be up soon here. http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/07/eastern-sierra-bishop-area-fall-colors-2018/

I loved my Velbon Geo 535D tripod, which I bought first as a gift, then a second one for myself, that I used as my main tripod for landscape and night photography for close to 4 years. I originally wrote this review after using it about 18 months, and now… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/11/07/velbon-geo-e535d-tripod-review/

I don’t know when I’ll get around to uploading all of my photos from my recent Oregon Coast photography tour, but here are a few images that I’ve uploaded so far. http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/09/28/oregon-coast-photography-tour/

Bodie: To top off enrollment in our Bodie sessions September 8 I’m opening up registration for the two sessions separately as morning interior access only ($495)  and sunset/night photography only ($495).  The discounted dual-access September 8 interior… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/08/29/fall-winter-photography-workshops-california-2018/

Another Bodie night photography workshop, which we’re conducting in a 3 day/night format this year, so we can have practice nights and at least one classroom and post-processing session before the precious hours of the Bodie access night! Here are some of… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/07/23/night-photography-workshop-bodie/

Protected: Notes on post-processing for Milky Way shots from Bodie There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/07/23/notes-post-processing-milky-way-shots-bodie/

“I Don’t Like My Pictures” We’ve all said that after a shoot, after visiting a location that we had high expectations for, such as after experiencing a spectacular sunset that the camera didn’t seem to capture well. There are exceptions, but why do images… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/07/21/image-post-processing/

There’s a lot of variety in the wildflowers blooming right now up on Monitor Pass! This is in the Eastern Sierra again, 2000 feet up and over 50 miles away from the great patches I found in early June. This is turning out to be a great year! the patch… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/06/26/monitor-pass-wildflower-bloom-mono-county-border/

The colorful sandstone rock formations in the Escalante – Grand Staircase National Monument and Vermilion Cliffs National Monument are about as interesting as a terrestrial landscape can get, with white, yellow, orange and red sandstone mixed in a variety… http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2018/05/20/white-pocket-arizona/