Inari Northern Lights Time-Lapse by Tomi Rantanen, Finnish Lapland
A small boat sits on a dark lake while green and violet curtains of light ripple overhead. Finnish photographer Tomi Rantanen spent the aut...
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Time-Lapse Films: Landscapes & Moving Skies
Time-lapse makes slow changes visible: clouds cross a valley, shadows travel over rock and the sky becomes the moving part of a landscape. These film stories explore both the scenery and the camera choices behind the finished sequence. Notice how intervals, viewpoint and editing change the sense of time.
Milky Way and Northern Lights Over Loch More: Winiarczyk’s Time-Lapse
Maciej Winiarczyk had set up his camera on the banks of Loch More in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, to film a time-lapse of the Mi...
TIMEDRIFT II: Martin Heck’s Dolomites Time-Lapse and the Peaks It Shows
Clouds pour over jagged ridges, shadows sweep across pale rock walls and the sky turns from pink to deep blue in seconds. TIMEDRIFT II is f...
Appalachian Trail Beard Timelapse: 3D's Six-Month Thru-Hike in 2015
Over six months in 2015, a 61-year-old hiker known on the Appalachian Trail as 3D photographed his own face almost every day, from early sp...
Monsoon II: Mike Olbinski’s Arizona Storm Time-Lapse of the 2015 Season
Shelf clouds rolling over the desert, rain shafts hanging from towering cells, walls of blowing dust and lightning almost everywhere you loo...
Edge of Stability: Jeff Boyce’s 70,000-Photo Storm and Night-Sky Time-Lapse
In May and June 2015 California police officer Jeff Boyce took five weeks off work, loaded his truck with cameras and went looking for the ...
ISS Symphony: Dmitry Pisanko's Time-Lapse of Earth and Aurora from Orbit
A green aurora spreads across the curve of the Earth while the International Space Station's hardware stands in silhouette in the foreg...
Ice Crystals Timelapse: Shawn Knol’s Melting Ice in Polarized Light
Ordinary ice is clear, yet in Shawn Knol's Ice Crystals Timelapse it glows in shifting bands of magenta, gold, green and blue as it me...
A Taste of Austria: FilmSpektakel’s Two-Year Time-Lapse Film of the Alps
How do you fit a whole country into less than three minutes? For the Vienna filmmakers of FilmSpektakel, the answer was two years on the ro...
Two Lands: Joe Capra's 4K Time-Lapse of Greenland and Iceland
Northern lights, glaciers, the icebergs of Disko Bay and Iceland's Kirkjufell all feature in Two Lands – Greenland | Iceland is a 4K t...
Norway – A Time-Lapse Adventure: Morten Rustad’s Film of 19 Counties
A small boat rests on still water between steep mountain walls, and the fjord mirrors the whole valley. Then the clouds start to race. Norw...
Exploding Meteor in a Milky Way Time-Lapse: Wes Eisenhauer, South Dakota
On the night of 16 October 2014, photographer Wes Eisenhauer was shooting a Milky Way time-lapse outside Custer, South Dakota, when a meteo...
Latvian Aurora Time-Lapse: Kaspars Daleckis Films the Northern Lights
Green and violet curtains roll above a black line of pine trees while the snow below stays perfectly still. Kaspars Daleckis filmed this au...
Dustin Farrell's Landscapes Volume 3: Time-Lapse of Desert and Ice
Dustin Farrell spent three years chasing light across the deserts of the American Southwest and the ice of Iceland. Landscapes: Volume 3 , ...
Vincent Brady’s Planetary Panoramas: Star Trails Wrapped into Tiny Worlds
Planetary Panoramas is a night-sky time-lapse by Michigan photographer Vincent Brady that wraps 360-degree star-trail panoramas into tiny ...
Planetary Panoramas: Vincent Brady's 360-Degree Night-Sky Time-Lapse
Vincent Brady's Planetary Panoramas , released on 17 June 2014, wraps the whole night sky around a tiny spinning world. The four-minute...
Meteor Shower Time-Lapse: Thomas O’Brien’s Seven Years of Night Skies
Seven years of nights under the stars went into Meteor , a short 2014 time-lapse reel by Aspen, Colorado, photographer Thomas O’Brien. Stre...
Beyond Nature Iceland: aprilgarden's Summer Timelapse of the Island
Over eight days in July 2013, the filmmaker behind aprilgarden travelled Iceland shooting timelapse, letting clouds race, light shift and w...
Awakening: Martin Heck’s 4K New Zealand Time-Lapse and How It Was Made
Mountains, racing clouds and shifting light fill Awakening | New Zealand 4K , a time-lapse film by German photographer Martin Heck and his ...
Yosemite HD II Time-Lapse: 200 Miles of Backpacking Through the Park
Yosemite HD II is a five-minute portrait of Yosemite National Park through all four seasons, made by California photographers Colin Delehan...