Yesterday, I complained about the lack of snow. Today, this happened. Thanks, Nature! Now, could I possibly have another wish?
Rain is Gone, but Clouds Swirl
Clouds swirl over the tree tops, and how different they do look in the span of 24 hours!
One timelapse depicts cotton-like clouds over hazy, near-colorless mountain peaks. Counterintuitively, it is as if these soggy trees are smoking.
The other shows clouds dissipate at sundown over the woods to reveal brilliant sunshine.
October Moons
The first crescent images are from the beginning of the month. I wanted to capture something that I'd call reversed scale: giant autumn leaves and a tiny Moon.
This blurred photograph, thanks to a shallow depth of field, with a resultant sea of gold in subtly different shades, turned out to be a surprise favorite of mine, though likely too abstract for the viewer.
And this timelapse of last week's half-Moon with wispy clouds veiling over it is dreamy enough to compensate for the current rainy cloud cover and staying indoors.
Almost.
Last Days of Golden Autumn (Part II)
Remaining autumn leaves flutter in the wind against the backdrop of a late October sunset.:
a) as a mobile still;
b) and as a now customary looping timelapse:
The dreariest of months, November, is almost here.
The Moon Lay Hidden...
The Moon lay hidden beneath a cloud...until timelapse revealed it.
This is my very first experiment using a telephoto lens attached to a smartphone. All things considered, I'm pretty impressed. These lenses are not a replacement for, say, photographing wildlife up close and personal, but they're certainly a great supplement. Perhaps, you could even get away with just bringing a set along for travel. Normally, I have at least one carry-on just for a camera and a few lenses. Can you imagine how much space you'd save?
More experiments to come, since timelapse photography is quite addicting. Now if only platforms like Vine and Instagram didn't reduce the quality of large areas of solid color so much.
Storm Has Come
...and gone!
Sometimes, the weather in the Rocky Mountains changes rapidly.
This is even more evident with the help of a timelapse video. Watch the light change:
Now that I finally have a different tripod for a smartphone—instead of using random objects creatively—my timelapse addiction just might get worse!
Rocking Sunset
This was a hair-blowing-in-the-wind rocker kind of a sunset in the, well, Rockies. Can't you just imagine some mad riffs added to this timelapse as the audio component? A mini-music video, in other words!
Rocky Mountain Sunset
You know what makes a striking pink-black-and-yellow sunset even more so?
When you can actually see the clouds create fantastical shapes:
Glacial Solitude
If I can no longer swim in the lake, even in a wetsuit, due to near-freezing night-time temperatures, I can at least stare at the abandoned beach and the recurrent waves, completely alone, save for the company of seagulls.
Half-Moon Swirls
The other night, the clouds around the evening Half-Moon were so fairy-tale like...
...that I even recorded a little Vine to hypnotize you with the looping swirls.