Timelapse is a great way to pack in large amounts of visual information in a really effective manner. Its often used to document construction projects and display star trails. Then you have certain people who take this simple technique to a whole new level. Check out Christoph Rehage’s awesome documentation of his inspiring trip through China.
Below our some previously featured timelapse videos:
Love animals. Go through life trying to get that perfect shot of your favorite big cat? Have you trekked the Masai Mara and the Serengetti in search of that “it” shot. Did you regret not putting up camera traps in the wild after reading the last article.
The title picture you see is one taken by Stephen Oachs and was the Viewer’s Choice Winner in National Geographic’s 2008 International Photography Contest. Unlike the Snow Leopard photo by Steve Winters in one of my earlier entries, this one wasn’t taken in the middle of the surreal Karakorum wilderness, but at a private reserve in Montana. So I decide to go to the all knowing Google and start searching for Snow Leopards in Montana. Suprisingly, there aren’t too many of them there. I soon found myself viewing Animals of Montana A private reserve, a veritable playground for any wildlife photographer. A place where animals of your choice can have a “photo session” with you. Yes you now have the ability to play the nagging and high strung photographer to an animal who is also a model, just don’t put them in any dresses please. The long list of redcarpet stars includes Grizzly Bears, Black Bears, Mountain Lions, Siberian Tigers, African Lions, Bobcats, Snow Leopards, Lynxes, Siberian Lynxes, Gray Wolves, Raccoons, Badgers, Pine Martins, Skunks, Red Foxes, Minks, Porcupines and Cross Foxes. If you’re Camera trigger finger isn’t twitching by now, then you aren’t a wildlife photographer (Either that or you are Art Wolfe and you can safely say been there done to most of my photographic dreams). Read more…
