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Flower at 15X on iPhone 6S+ Amazing how the world looks at 15X macro! www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #macrophotography   #iphoneography  olloclip  #superbloom2016   #deathvalley   #California

Top 10 Death Valley Wildflower Super Bloom Sites in March http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2016/03/12/death-valley-wildflower-super-bloom-sites-2016/ www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #deathvalley   #wildflowers   #VisitCalifornia  Visit California  Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Death Valley Wildflower "Super Bloom" Sites 2016 How accurate did the Park's reports turn out to be upon arrival?  Pretty darned good.  Here are my photos to go with their reports:  http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2016/03/12/death-valley-wildflower-super-bloom-sites-2016/ #superbloom2016   #deathvalley   #landscapephotography   #wildflowers

Death Valley Photography Workshop Last Week Had a great workshop during the "super bloom" in Death Valley last week!  I've started a new Death Valley album for 2016 photos.  It's up to 50+ photos so far, heavily weighted towards the current wildflower conditions of course! www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com   #deathvalley   #superbloom2016   #landscapephotography   #photographyworkshops   Originally shared by Death Valley Workshops New Death Valley 2016 Album I'll start this album off with a few photos captured from my landscape photography workshop during Death Valley's "super bloom" last week, then add photos from my February wildflower preview trip as well. www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #deathvalley   #landscapephotography   #photographyworkshop   #superbloom2016  

Wake Up Call An F-18 makes  a low pass in Death Valley National Park yesterday. #deathvalley   #F18   #chinalake www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Badwater Basin Sunrise This was taken at 6:55 am in the same location as my black and white photo a couple of posts ago, captured at 7:32 pm the night before.  Shooting into the bright oncoming sunrise, I used a graduated neutral density filter to reduce the brightness of the sky and captured three bracketed exposures to improve dynamic range.  I adjusted an image in Adobe Lightroom 5.7, applied that to three exposures and sent them to Photomatix HDR (Soft 2 processing if I remember correctly) to include more shadow and highlight detail in this high contrast lighting, readjusted the resulting TIF file in Lightroom, then sent that result to OnOne Perfect Effects 9 for a final tweak. This is a large basin where a giant lake evaporated thousands of years ago, and the mineral-rich waters left a deposit of rock salt.  Wind deposits dust on the salt flats, but pools of water dissolve it into salt water, and the dirt settles to the bottom, so when the surface re-crystallizes, it becomes salt ...

Desert Sunflowers at the Ashford Mill Death Valley National Park was reporting strong wildflowers by February this year, so I was afraid that I might miss them by arriving closer to the normal peak in March.   Fortunately many of the places they suggested, like Ashford Mill, were still going strong. #wildflowers   #deathvalley   #Canon   #photography   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

Sunburst Canyon The sun was higher on this visit than it was on prior visits, so the lighting in this canyon changed considerably.  It's nice to develop that sort of knowledge, to know when it's most rewarding to return for more photography. #deathvalley   #slotcanyon   #photography   #hiking   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com

First Light on the Tucki Mountains The sun shines on the Tucki Mountains in Death Valley National Park, over a salty spring in March 2015.   #deathvalley   #landscapephotography   #nationalpark   #DVNP     www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Death Valley Workshops

Wildflowers in Death Valley 2015 Wildflowers in Death Valley National Park, March 2015. #deathvalley   #wildflowers   #spring   www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com Death Valley Workshops 

Light Painting Death Valley's Charcoal Kilns Star Trails over the charcoal Kilns in Death Valley National Park.  #nightphotography   #deathvalley   #starrynights   #DVNP   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/

Shares 500px to G+ are Large, Link Back to Photo Historically, most shares to G- seemed to result in small thumbnails, which only makes the post get largely ignored on G+, so there wasn't much incentive to share off-site content here.  Lately I've been able to get photos on my Blogger site to show up large, but this 500px photos seems to be the first photo sharing site where its content actually seems welcome on G+.  Time will tell whether posts of external content gets equal treatment by the G+ filtering algorithms and What's Hot, but having large photos included in the G+ post is a nice start. Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan 500px Adds Groups! 500px announced new Groups functionality last night. It's a beta feature and only some people have access to it, so you while you can join groups and post to them, most 500px users don't have the ability to form one at the moment.  I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on the new functionality if you've had a chanc...