No self-respecting nature journal would be complete without a time-lapse post. Of course, time-lapse recording is an art unto itself these days with thousands of them available on YouTube and elsewhere. Most high end digital cameras have time-lapse capabilities built in - even so, a great deal of planning is required to pull off some of the stuff you see on the Internet. You can watch a bridge construction compressed into a minute or two and even watch children age years in a few minutes.
My humble time-lapses are far more simplistic. Just some seasonal scenes, marching though time, like my own slow, but highly enjoyable journey through life. At some point I hope to create some more sophisticated ones, involving plants and flowers. But first I'll have to read the camera manual and figure out how to do them. LOL.
Meanwhile, here's a mini-series of a wheat field near our home. This was more of an accidental experiment to test the waters so to speak. The main thing I learned was that next time using a calendar to set up shooting dates would be very helpful.
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| Oct. 2, 2013 - Sprouting winter wheat |
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| Nov. 21, 2013 - On its way... |
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| May 20, 2014 - About 18 in. Tall |
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| Jul 28, 2014 - Ready to Harvest |
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| Sept. 16, 2014 - Plowed Under |
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| Oct. 7, 2014 - Tiny seedlings barely visible |
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| Oct. 16, 2014 - After 10 days of sunny weather, more green! |
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| Nov. 6, 2014 - Cooler and wetter days now. |
My only other time-lapse effort predates the one above. It covers a year in the life of the Harris bridge on Farmington Road. Pretty exciting stuff - if you're a salamander!
Harris Bridge Time-Lapse
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