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Great Basin School of Photography
@jeffsullivan.bsky.social
Photographer, co-founder Great Basin School of Photography.
New 2026 Landscape and Night Photography Workshops Released! Black Friday/Cyber Monday discount 25% on most itineraries using code "FALL2025" during enrollment: jeffsullivanphotography.com/2025/11/26/n... #nightphotography
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We've had a great Eastern Sierra night photography workshop season! As wildfires and smoke take over, w planning for 2026.

I sold a 30" x 60" metal print of this Aurora borealis, airglow, and Milky Way arch image from May on Smugmug (my user name there is jeffsullivan).
September 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A breaking storm leaves fog clearing from around El Capitan, as seen from the banks of the Merced River. This is form our Yosemite Fall Colors workshop in 2024, we have our next one coming up in just over 4 months: November 1-6, 2025!
July 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Oregon Coast anyone? With the cost of domestic travel falling, we're looking at various locations in the American West to add photography workshops. Message us to get on our distribution list for new release news. #seascape #sunset #oregoncoast www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/workshops/
May 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Images from our annual "adventure" trip to Death Valley: 6 days, 5 nights of photography in more remote areas of the national park. We enjoyed dramatic weather and light including sunsets, stars / Milky Way photography in this internationally-recognized "dark sky park", wildflowers, even a rainbow!
April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Aurora borealis and Perseid meteors over Topaz Lake on the California/ Nevada border, night of August 11-12, 2024 (Latitude 38.7 N). We'll be watching for a moderate repeat in the coming nights. www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #nevada #nightphotography
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A lot of the dust over Mesquite Flat sand dunes in Death Valley last Sunday was blowing from Cottonball Basin, which was mined for borax. Alkali dust is ultra-fine, getting deep into your lungs. LADWP maintains shallow ponds in Owens Lake to reduce exposure in the Western U.S. to alkali dust.
March 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The full rainbow (and part of the double) was a nice surprise to see in one of North America's driest places!
March 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Loved Yosemite National Park last week, but we're packing to spend next week in Death Valley National Park. We're expecting rain showers, so the light, drama, and rainbows could be incredible! www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/death-valley... #nationalparks #landscapephotography #photographyworkshops
February 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Had a great time in Yosemite National Park last week, but we're already packing to spend next week in Death Valley National Park. We're expecting rain showers, so the light and drama may be incredible!
February 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It's raining in parts of Death Valley National Park! On weather radar the storm moving toward this area is labeled "severe thunderstorm" and "flash flood"! Great news for our two Death Valley photo workshops coming up in March: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/death-valley... #landscapephotography
February 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Our winter Yosemite workshop is coming up in 5days! Every year is like a gift; we can't wait to see what we get! It's snowing above the Valley today, so we'll have snow on Half Dome, El Capitan, Three Brothers, and Horsetail Fall should flow strong. www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/yosemite-win...
February 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
New spot found while scouting new areas to shoot in our 2025 small group landscape and night photography workshops in Death Valley National Park. JeffSullivanPhotography.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Storm light falling briefly on a mountain over Mesquite Flat sand dunes in Death Valley National Park. Fortunately I was using a Nikkor Z 28-400mm lens. If I had been walking around with a midrange or ultra-wide lens on the camera, I would have missed this! JeffSullivanPhotography.com
January 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Our annual winter photography workshop in Yosemite National Park is coming up in a little over a month! www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #landscapephotography #photographyworkshops #yosemitenationalpark
January 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I tried out the Nikon Z8 with Nikkor Z 28-400mm lens in Death Valley earlier this month. Now I'm spoiled! I need to figure out how to raise the funds to upgrade to the new system.
December 30, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Another view of the pool of salt water that we brought photographers in our workshop to in Death Valley this month. This salty water is the source of the salt polygons that photographers like to capture. www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com #nationalpark #landscapephotography #photographyworkshops
December 28, 2024 at 4:44 PM
It's always a little faster and easier to adjust and post iPhone images using the Adobe Lightroom mobile app, so here are a few early results from Death Valley earlier this month. My Flickr account is a great place to collect them into albums: www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreysullivan/ #iphoneography
December 28, 2024 at 4:37 PM
How do we know that the water table in Badwater Basin is shallow? In places the playa is frequently wet, and in other places you can see the water. We found water on the salt flats in 2008, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024! www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/death-valley-photography-workshop-2013/
December 27, 2024 at 5:26 PM
The salt crack polygons are re-forming in Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park. The temporary Lake Manly is gone, but the water table is shallow, just a few inches below the surface of the salt flats.
December 20, 2024 at 11:34 PM
We extended the Black Friday sale on our 2025 landscape & night photography workshops through tomorrow, December 20: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/workshops/
Destinations include Yosemite National Park, Death Valley National Park, Bodie State Historic Park, Mono Lake and the High Sierra, and more!
December 19, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I was all set up to capture Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas setting over Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevada, when a Starlink satellite train popped up over Mt. Whitney and photobombed the scene.

EEELLLLONNNN (shakes fist at sky)!
November 18, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Enrollment in our September Bodie interior access and night photography workshop with Eastern Sierra night and landscape photography has done so well, we're working on adding a similar itinerary July 7-10! A club wants the first 3+ spots... it may fill fast! jeffsullivanphotography.com/workshops/
February 13, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Photographic Composition: Conception and Fine Tuning (new blog post) - A Joshua tree is side-lit by the low winter sun against the backdrop of looming Telescope Peak. www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/2024/02/01/p... #deathvalley #California #landscapephotography #photographyworkshops
February 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
We had an amazing group and trip earlier this month in Death Valley! We'll be back March 4-9 for our spring photography workshop: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/workshops/
January 30, 2024 at 2:50 AM