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Can't Wait to Get Outside!

I get to go outside and play!  Well, not really, I'll be working on a few new places for my guide book, but since it involves landscape photography it's fun, so it's as close to playing as I get while I crank this project out.  I recently finished a pass at the Ratings table, a cool feature at the end of all the guide books published by +Laurent Martres, where you can net it out and see which are the most scenic places, whether or not they're really conducive to photography, and how the road or trail access ranks, each on a scale of zero to five.  It helps visitors new to a region or expanding their location knowledge prioritize their time.  It also helps save gas: we scouted as much as possible to reduce your need to, and to help you be efficient and arrive everywhere just in time, at an optimal season and time of day.

This shot is from one of my research trips in May, 2011.   I'd tell you where it is, but I'll get the book out to you faster if I just put it in the manuscript and get this project done!  It's in the Eastern Sierra, a couple of hours down the road from here.

For folks in or visiting Central to Northern California, the 420 page California – North book in the series, written by +Gary Crabbe, is already available: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0916189201?ie=UTF8&creativeASIN=0916189201&linkCode=xm2&tag=jeffsulliphot-20

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61 thoughts on “Can't Wait to Get Outside!”

  19. Miguel Almeida
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    Fantastic shot. I usually prefer the water when it is not an absolute mirror (particular outdoors and in scenarios where it is plausible there may be even a slight breeze… which likely will make surface movement). Makes for a really beautiful image.

  22. Miguel Almeida
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    Ahhh, +Jeff Sullivan, you got the "Lee Big Stopper" black glass, perhaps?! I am still to get my first ND, and I'm itching to get the Genus ND Eclipse (its 2 to 8 stops). My retailer is out of them for 2 months (I have to try it b4 I buy, so I can't order online), so I'm still waiting and longing for it. With the 10 ND baby you'll certainly be able to get phenomenal results!

  28. Miguel Almeida
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    I hear you +Jeff Sullivan, and I am frightened exactly of that (I use a 10-22 and a 15-85 on an APS-C body, so it's the 16mm equivalent for the first one of these as well). That is one of the reasons why I have to try it b4 I buy it. BUT this weekend I got to speak to people at Genus and ask them about this, and they said that their vari-ND should not vignette in any of the two lenses. So I keep my hopes on this unit for now. Have fun with that great black glass! (I'm sure you will) 😉

  51. Jeff Sullivan
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    And when you encountered two people there, you were bringing how many +Jean Day, eight people (or was that on a previous visit when you brought a workshop to the area)?  Did you say "hi" and ask those two people how they found it?  Perhaps they were referred by your workshop attendees.  I count nine of you in the first photo on this page:
    http://www.apertureacademy.com/photography-workshop-eastern-sierra-july-2012.php
    Two years after I showed you and Marc this view, I haven't brought or directed anyone to it.  

    With the volume of people getting shown around my favorite places all over the state and the masses of people showing up for events like Horsetail Fall, I'm about to give up on the concept of keeping things under wraps (except in the case of archaeological sites).

  53. Jean Day
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    Oh my goodness +Jeff Sullivan !  No I didn't get to say "hi" as one was driving out while I was driving in, and the other driving in while I was driving out!  And they didn't look like ranchers.  🙂  Actually, that first shot from our workshop was on the Owen's at Chalk Bluff, but we did take our students to a similar location.

    Maybe I should have clarified my position.  The difference between a yearly one dozen workshop participants and the potential of tens of thousands getting the info on locations from an internationally available publication, is really quite dramatic!  Like me (we), you take your workshop students to spots off the beaten path because they are relatively obscure, and I'm sure you will omit a great many of your favorites in your book to maintain some exclusivity for as long as possible.

    That's really all I was getting at with my previous comment.  And to be fair to +Marc Briggs  …he was the one that led us all to this place.  🙂

  55. Jeff Sullivan
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    +Jean Day  Our experiences, opinions and recollections differ greatly on several points you make.  I'm two days into a 2000 mile trip and can't promptly address statements you're making.  I asked you to conduct the conversation offline, and I'll invite you again to do so..

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