Welcome to my photo travel blog. I am a landscape and night photographer who conducts photography workshops in some of America’s most exotic landscapes. I just completed a travel guide to the best landscape photography locations in Southern California, to be available in September 2015.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Sierra Spring Storm at Mono Lake
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Quick Overnight to Death Valley
Distances are very difficult to judge on the salt flats. I had already been walking for about 10 minutes across the uneven surface of the dirt-soiled salt before taking this picture towards the fresher, whiter salt deposits ahead. I had expected to reach the white surface in less than half that time.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Chasing Ansel Adams
Many of us enjoy standing where famous photographers stood in the past, seeing what they saw, and sometimes we even aspire to capture something evocative of their work, an artistic echo in time.
Fortunately with enough information we can determine the shooting position and even duplicate celestial events such as sun and moon position to recreate the lighting of the shot, so if we want to witness for example Ansel Adams' "Moon and Half Dome" image live, we can arrive for the same lunar and sun shadow alignment that Ansel saw in 1960. That won't happen again for almost a decade from now, but there will be a time later this year when the sun and moon position will be awfully close.
More on this later...
More on this later...
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Chasing Moonbows in Yosemite Valley at Night
As a starting point for predicting the best times to catch a moonbow in Yosemite, Don Olson of Texas State University has calculated the best times to look for a moonbow from the bridge below Lower Yosemite Falls:
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~do01/
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~do01/
If you go to the bridge to photograph the moonbows, please don't use headlamps, as they throw light uncontrollably all over the other photographers' shots. And red lights are the worst, the most inconsiderate for you to use... very difficult to edit out of shots later. This isn't astronomy, you're not in a darkroom. Please have the simple courtesy to leave the red lights at home. For seeing your camera controls without destroying your night vision, hold your (dimmed) phone display on top of your camera, facing back at yourself. Any light of any kind that you sine back at the front of your camera, to see if there is water on the filter for example, will probably appear in the shot of the people next to you.
There were also many reflection opportunities in vernal pools in Cook's Meadow. This pool does not exist or it is too low after winters with too little snow, such as 2014.
I hope that I've provided some useful information on Yosemite's moonbows so you can pursue some interesting and unique shots.
If you'd like to join me in Yosemite sometime, you can find my Yosemite photography workshop schedule on a dedicated page accessible from the top page of this blog (I'm currently working out the dates for 2014, so you might have to check back or get on my mailing list to hear when they're released):
http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/yosemite-national-park-photography-workshops/
If you'd like to join me in Yosemite sometime, you can find my Yosemite photography workshop schedule on a dedicated page accessible from the top page of this blog (I'm currently working out the dates for 2014, so you might have to check back or get on my mailing list to hear when they're released):
http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/yosemite-national-park-photography-workshops/
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Return to the North Coast
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