Top 10 Travel photos: 2009

Storm Over Mono Lake, Eastern Sierra, California

Continuing the retrospective look at my last decade of travel and landscape photography, 2006 - 2015.  Here are some of my favorites from 2009. By this point, three years into my full time pursuit of photography, it starts getting hard to select favorites!

Eastern Sierra Dawn Reflection

Mono Lake Sunrise Telephoto

Belt of Venus at Mono Lake, Eastern Sierra

Aftermath of a Forest Fire, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Joshua Tree Sunrise, Joshua Tree National Park, California

Me and My Shadow, Death Valley National Park, California

Lunar Rainbow Over Lower Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park

Earth's Last Hope< Santa Monica, California

Orion Over Zion, Zion National Park, Utah

This was a selection of a few favorites from an album of over 60 photos from 2009. To see more of them, as well as some of my road trip itineraries, click on the link or photo below.

Over 50 more of my favorite photos from 2009: 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/albums/72157651158831831

Day 7: Sunday and Last Night at Burning Man 2009

Fire of Fires Before the Burn, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan (www.MyPhotoGuides.com).

Sunday at Burning Man is the day when the massive wooden "temple" is burned. I rrived early to get a decent view, and used a slow shutter speed to blur the procession of people walking in front of me.

Fire of Fires by David Umlas, Marrilee Ratcliffe, Community Art Makers:
earth.burningman.com/brc/2009/art_installation/430/

Day 6: The Wind Continues and The Man Burns, Saturday

Rising from the Desert, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan (www.MyPhotoGuides.com).

After shooting things and people for several days, it was comforting to find a shot that felt more like a desert landscape. The Black Rock Desert has the ability to heal itself quickly of the footprints left the night before.

Unfortunately my tent was completely flattened by the wind on Friday afternoon, and upon returning late at night and finding the wind velocity still high, I didn't have the energy to try to plant some stakes upwind and tie it down to see if it might stay up. I slept on the platform taht I've built in the back of my (by now very dusty) minivan.

Day 5: Burning Man 2009, Venturing Out by Day

Standing Guard, originally uploaded by Jeff Sullivan (www.MyPhotoGuides.com).

You never know what you're going to run across at Burning Man! I ofund this guy standing under the Soma art installtion by Flaming Lotus Girls. He was standing completely still, shooting a timelapse sequence for some reason. I'll try to follow up and find out why!

Soma, by Flaming Lotus Girls:
earth.burningman.com/brc/2009/art_installation/439/

Friday night featured the "launch" of the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship. I sat for hours waiting to see if the event would occur in the high winds, but I ran out of patience in the dust and wind and headed back to camp.