A Day in a Wild West Mining Town

The California Gold Rush was started by the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848. In 1959 W. S. Bodey discovered gold east of the Sierra Nevada, and the rest is history. Fortunately we can explore that history due to local families preserving the town until it became Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. The town is preserved in a state of "arrested decay", and the interiors of the buildings have been left largely untouched for over 50 years.

We head out there from before dawn, and spend a long day with sunrise, sunset, two golden hours, six hours of access to interiors, and from the time the park closes at 6 pm into the night at 1 am. It's a marathon, but one full of unique photographic opportunities.
I've created a new blog post outlining a typical schedule:
http://activesole.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-photo-workshop-day-and-night-in-bodie.html

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+Bodie Photo Workshops : http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/

A Photo Workshop Day and Night in Bodie
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