Tag Archives: timelapse

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4/3/14: Anatomy of a TerraLapse image

So some are wondering how I’ve been capturing such long exposures in a single image, and I’m here to tell you that it takes a bit of effort, let alone some pretty serious CPU muscle […]

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4/3/13: TerraLapse images from Tulum, Mexico

Many of you know I’ve been moving forward with a significant new project that hopefully will consume my time well into the future. Last fall I discovered (by ‘happy accident‘) an unusual application of an image […]

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3/7/14: Space.com post of ‘Tribute’ image

This morning I was alerted to the fact that Space.com published one of my images back in November. It was the star trail composite of the ‘Tribute Hike’ lights meandering down a Loveland Pass ridge […]

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2/25/14: Catching Time at Matthews Winters Park

What a difference an hour makes! Ran down to Matthews Winters this morning after I saw the clouds dancing the way they need to, and I got a couple of series of images of the […]

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12/1/13: Catching Time at Dusk, Golden, CO

Driving home from New Mexico, chasing stunning clouds this evening over Golden. Barely got to the Boyd exit in time to catch a few. Images captured to further develop my TerraLapse technique (timestack files using […]

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11/19/13: Altocumulus Standing Lenticularis clouds

Commonly known around the Front Range area as a ‘mountain wave’, ACSL clouds are created when relatively fast-moving air that is relatively moist hits a topographic feature, typically mountains. The air is deflected upward, and […]

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11/16/13: Time-lapse of Comet ISON

I spent this morning compiling 10 minutes worth of image captures of Comet ISON on 11/16/13 into a time-lapse video that reveals some interesting things in the tail of the comet. 135 images spanning from […]

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11/01/13: Catching Time, an alternate reality of the Crescent Moon at dawn

This morning’s dawn gave rise to a crescent moon that floated in and out of cloud banks, giving me an opportunity to continue to refine a process I’ve envisioned that enables the passage of time […]

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10/16/13: Night Lights: Switchback Racetrack

One quick TerraLapse image (using image stacking techniques to depict an interval of time):

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10/11/13: ‘Milky Way + Hikers’ Star Trail Composite

Today I spent some time compositing the  images from Tuesday night’s time-lapse into one single image. A total of 159 30-second images (from 10:02 to 11:29 PM) were used in the image below, and effectively […]

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10/2/12: ISS Lunar Transit photographed from Golden, CO

At 6:35 AM this morning, the International Space Station made a somewhat rare lunar transit which was observable here in Golden, Colorado, passing in front of the moon just before sunrise at a distance of […]

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5/20/12: Solar Eclipse Timelapse video

One last solar eclipse post: This is a timelapse sequence of the solar eclipse that occurred on May 20, 2012, captured at Daniels Park in Castle Pines, CO. Unfortunately the clouds did not cooperate, but […]