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‘You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.’ - Paulo Coelho
I enjoy trying to capture a fleeting expression and I’ve found that good potential for one exists immediately after a victory or a loss. While watching the sumo wrestlers bout their opponents in their training stables in Tokyo, I noticed that the winners remained very quiet and rather expressionless. It struck me rather early on that there would be no photos of crazy victory dances or celebrations in the dohyo that day, so I turned my attention to the runner up. Well here he is, with his hand on his head thinking about what he should change and how he should approach his next bout. Although he lost this time, he wasn’t defeated.
Tokyo, Japan
January, 2020
Photo prise par mon petit Damien lors de la visite du Pont de Gau, parc ornithologique en Camargue à les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer en août dernier....
Je dédie ces photos à mon ami Jean-Paul Neveu qui connais bien ce parc et qu'il me l'avais conseillé par le passé.
Another image in vertical presentation of my one evening being able to see the Milky Way while we were away on holidays in July...along the Lake Huron shore near Howdenvale. The moon was visible off to the right so it helped to light up the bay.
Timing is often critical in moving about Yosemite Valley efficiently and productively in its peak seasons.
Photo prise par mon petit Damien lors de la visite du Pont de Gau, parc ornithologique en Camargue à les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer en août dernier....
Je dédie ces photos à mon ami Jean-Paul Neveu qui connais bien ce parc et qu'il me l'avais conseillé par le passé.
Stormy days are the best in Bodie State Historic Park.
We're already looking at dates for our 2026 night photography workshops in Bodie! Contact us to get on our list of folks that we'll be notifying upon release.
From our Bodie - Mono Lake - Yosemite landscape and night photography workshop last week. We'll be back in Yosemite for fall colors with another group of photographers in early November!
Mountains eroding, the debris slowly grinding down an alluvial slope, and sand sorted and deposited by wind below.
I'm not usually a fan of heavy-handed post-processing effects, but when I saw these two types of geography pitted against each other (separated by the process that ties them together), the effective spotlight on each made sense.
The pinhole effect that my black and white conversion software presented was too harsh, so I made the black and white conversion first, then created a more subtle vignette/pinhole effect in Lightroom.
Portrait of a curvy and somewhat x-shaped sunny dune, with foreground sand texture leading into the scene (24mm).
Lots of dodder too. A parasiotic plant that's native to the Mojave exosystem, dodder may simply be responding to greater than average plant growth. Or the mild winter may have contributed to greater survival.
Apparently wind blows phacelia seeds up side canyons, and they find perfect growing conditions as water carries them back down the ravines.
Bleached creosote trunks in the sun's last light of the day, against deep shadows and white clay from ancient lakes.
This is what I envisioned when I saw these creosote bushes in bright white sunlight against the deep dune shadows. A deliberate photograph happens in your mind first. The rest is just the details on how you get there.
We have several days of potential rain showers in the forecast... summer monsoon moisture has entered the room!
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Lyrid meteor, green airglow and the Milky Way over rock formations early Thursday morning under the dark starry skies of rural Nevada.
This image is available for printing on my SmugMug account (www.jeffsullivan.smugmug.com/). I recently sold a 30" x 60" metal print!
Red aurora borealis visible to the north, as the Milky Way rises and stretches across the sky. The green airglow is also a chemiluminescence of oxygen triggered by energy form the sun. There was a little bit of moonlight in the sky above from the recently-set moon, adding a slight blue tint to the sky.
From our night photography workshop in late May 2025. We held workshops in the area in May, June, July, and August, and our workshops ended before this season's fire and smoke season got underway!
Just completed our third or fourth visit here this season (I've lost track), and we'll be bringing photographers out here again with us later this month!
To do so legally requires not only a commercial use authorization with Death Valley National Park (and a U.S. work visa for foreign trip leaders), but also a backcountry permit (which requires wilderness first aid certification), an hiking permit, and when we're camping, a food service certificate).
Death Valley rangers do check permits (we've been checked and we know of people who were cited), so if you consider signing up for a Death Valley workshop, make sure that your trip leaders have ALL of the permits and certifications required, so your workshop won't get shut down for lack of proper permits!