Although it seems this ran until dark it wasn’t that dark. It was very bright when I set this up and you need to fix the exposure or it jumps around and ruins the movie.

So now there’s a library. I’m linking to the best quality movies I have. Recently I’ve started using a hi-def format (h.264) at 1280 x 720. I’ve also started leveraging YouTube more because they support this format.

This one is about ten hours of day reduced to four or so minutes. I think it’s nice.

(Use the HD button when you play the movie if you have the bandwidth. Note that the HD button only appears after the movies begin playing. Also, I believe it always fully buffers before playing.)

The second one was started in the late afternoon because the sky looked ripe. I think it’s a great movie, but every direction other than the one I chose to point my camera was spectacular — full of pretty clouds burning red. I think the angle and the speed the clouds travel make this movie.

I should mention that both these movies were made from the top of our shipping/storage container-in heavy winds. I am terrified of losing another camera due to the wind; however, I hate to do nothing when beautiful things are begging to be captured. I now have a ten pound weight I attach to the tripod with a stretch cord. So far so good.

This is pretty much a cloud movie. I started filming early in the day — just a hunch really. As it turned out the sunset over the Chiricahua’s was stunning and I ended up disappointed… still this is pretty nice.

Looking around on the web for the correct spelling of Peloncillo I ran across this great web site — you might want to check it out.

This was filmed on a very windy day. Clearly, there’s a lot of wind up where the clouds are, but it was windy on the ground too. I braced the tripod against a fence to keep it from moving. As far as I can tell, it stayed steady. There some ugly lens artifacts when the sun gets into the frame–still, I think it’s worth a look.

We’ve finished our move to Arizona (on the NM border). There’s a million new opportunities here for intreresting time-lapse movies. The easiest was the koi pond about 30 feet from our front door.

So here’s my first movie of the new year. I didn’t put too much thought into it. (It was more of a test that turned out well.) I hoped that I could get both the sky reflecting in the water and the koi swimming in the water… or whatever koi do in ponds.It worked better then I expected.

There are tons of frogs in this pond. They make the most delightful squeak when scared. It doesn’t take much to scare them and the pleasure I take in their squeaking doesn’t work to their benefit. I see them leaping into the pond all the time, but I never see them creeping back on to the shore. I hoped to catch them in this video. Alas, I see none of the crafty little devils.

There are a couple variation of this time-lapse on youtube. This link is to all the movies I’ve posted on youtube. Note that one of them is nearing 10,000 views. That seems amazing to me.