Category: timelapse

I got caught in a sudden rainstorm with other folks as the sunset roiled, and then morphed into a mostly blue sky at the end…

Here is an actual one minute video that takes you to two meadows of Mary Cummings Park on a perfect spring day with clouds dappling the grass. The birdhouses were meant for bluebirds, but so far only tree swallows have moved in. They are native species, eat insects, and just want to be left alone and for that guy to stop opening the door and ogling the babies. The mother was enormously brave to stay right on the nest when I looked in. (I only go there every 3-4 days, peek in and leave.)

Fall is a rich time of year for color and texture, and a moody, heavy sky just adds to the fun. All of the still photos were taken while the timelapse camera was working, taking over 3,000 images. Near the end, the wacky photograher guy appears for a moment.

Morning fog required a visit to the park, which is always hurried, because you never know how soon the fog will lift. This morning was slow and patient. After we added The Fog Was Lifting, the line from Woody Guthrie’s song This Land is Your Land, it became clear that after years of successful struggle to save it, Mary Cummings Park really is meant for you and me.

The music is by composer David Hilowitz.

This was a sunset that didn’t have a great deal of color, but made up for it with great composition. Wonderful music by Sound of Picture.

Lots of folks noticed the nifty sunset after many rainy days. I saw something happening in the sky from my window and ran up to the park…

Another promising sky with sun and clouds at play turned dark and foreboding, but impressive.

I took time lapse movies for 3 full days, 24 hours a day, of the monarch egg. And all the roughly 35,000 photos showed the same thing: an egg sitting on a leaf. However, I finally out-waited the egg, and got the time lapse of the caterpillar emerging.

It then went about eating the remaining empty egg, but notice it stopped and “thought” about it twice before finishing. Then it went for a walk before settling down to think about eating some milkweed.

As the video says at the end, “To be continued…” as the caterpillar goes through 5 stages of growth, becomes its chrysalis, and then emerges as the majestic monarch.

Here is one of those sunsets where clouds at different altitudes flow at different speeds – in different directions. Watch for the tiny, last bit of cloud to skitter across just before it all goes dark.