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trailmonkee

(2,681 posts)
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 11:57 PM Sep 2012

WATCH: It Took 260,000 Photos To Create This Stunning Time-Lapse Video Of The Pacific Northwest

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To create this stunning time-lapse video featuring landscapes from the Pacific Northwest, Oregon photographer John Eklund of The Art Of Time-Lapse weaved together about 260,000 photographs he had spent about a year capturing.

"I originally got into landscape photography because I had an interest in capturing the beauty in nature," Eklund said in an email to the Smithsonian Magazine.

"Then one day, I discovered a photographer online by the screen name of Mockmoon on YouTube. I was blown away by his timelapse work of the stars and Milky Way. After discovering timelapse photography, I viewed the typical landscape photography as static. With timelapse photography, it’s more dynamic. It captures the movement and changes in light that happens constantly in nature."

In this new video, entitled "Purely Pacific Northwest," beautiful natural landscapes, such as Crater Lake in southern Oregon and Mount Shuksan in Washington, from Eklund's home turf are not only brought to life but are given an almost timeless, other-worldly quality.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/john-eklund-photographer-time-lapse-video-pacific-northwest-art-of-timelapse_n_1884253.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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WATCH: It Took 260,000 Photos To Create This Stunning Time-Lapse Video Of The Pacific Northwest (Original Post) trailmonkee Sep 2012 OP
Lovely pictures of peace. lumpy Sep 2012 #1
It always makes the world seem so small when you see the starfield moving in the background trailmonkee Sep 2012 #2
From my part of God's country, Faux pas Sep 2012 #3
Wow thank you for posting this davidpdx Sep 2012 #4
hopefully now you are in an equally as beautiful place... Nah!! impossible :) trailmonkee Sep 2012 #5
South Korea has some beautiful places when you get away from the big cities davidpdx Sep 2012 #6

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
4. Wow thank you for posting this
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 12:37 AM
Sep 2012

I'm from Oregon and living overseas. I miss the Pacific NW so much and only get home every two years. This reminds me of just how beautiful the place I grew up in is.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
6. South Korea has some beautiful places when you get away from the big cities
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 06:39 AM
Sep 2012

,but nothing like Portland. Even for a pretty big city it is still a beautiful place.

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