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Horseshoe Canyon on a cloudy and windy day.

We’ve been watching large blooms grow on the cactus here for awhile now. Karen was convinced that they would bloom yesterday and suggested I setup the camera. She was right. Pretty much the entire patch all bloomed the same day. I got a small piece of it on film.

Although it seems this ran until dark it wasn’t that dark. It was very bright when I set this up and you need to fix the exposure or it jumps around and ruins the movie.

I became sensitive to problem of finding media the other day when I was looking for music to go with one of my new movies. I wanted a certain type of license and I had a length in mind. There was no way to filter the results. This made be think about how difficult it is to find just the movies on my blog.

So now there’s a library. I’m linking to the best quality movies I have. Recently I’ve started using a hi-def format (h.264) at 1280 x 720. I’ve also started leveraging YouTube more because they support this format.

I have a couple of new movies. Both movies run until the sun sets on the Chiricahua mountains. Because they capture the sunset there is a significant about of lens flare. I don’t think it detracts from the movie, but I’d be interested in other opinions.

This one is about ten hours of day reduced to four or so minutes. I think it’s nice.

(Use the HD button when you play the movie if you have the bandwidth. Note that the HD button only appears after the movies begin playing. Also, I believe it always fully buffers before playing.)

The second one was started in the late afternoon because the sky looked ripe. I think it’s a great movie, but every direction other than the one I chose to point my camera was spectacular — full of pretty clouds burning red. I think the angle and the speed the clouds travel make this movie.

I should mention that both these movies were made from the top of our shipping/storage container-in heavy winds. I am terrified of losing another camera due to the wind; however, I hate to do nothing when beautiful things are begging to be captured. I now have a ten pound weight I attach to the tripod with a stretch cord. So far so good.

We’re nestled in between the Chiricahua mountains and the Peloncillo mountains. I tend to photograph the Chiricahua’s because they are closer, but the Peloncillo’s are beautiful too. The evening light on the Peloncillo’s is something to see.

This is pretty much a cloud movie. I started filming early in the day — just a hunch really. As it turned out the sunset over the Chiricahua’s was stunning and I ended up disappointed… still this is pretty nice.

Looking around on the web for the correct spelling of Peloncillo I ran across this great web site — you might want to check it out.