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.

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.

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.

This was filmed on a very windy day. Clearly, there’s a lot of wind up where the clouds are, but it was windy on the ground too. I braced the tripod against a fence to keep it from moving. As far as I can tell, it stayed steady. There some ugly lens artifacts when the sun gets into the frame–still, I think it’s worth a look.

We’ve finished our move to Arizona (on the NM border). There’s a million new opportunities here for intreresting time-lapse movies. The easiest was the koi pond about 30 feet from our front door.

So here’s my first movie of the new year. I didn’t put too much thought into it. (It was more of a test that turned out well.) I hoped that I could get both the sky reflecting in the water and the koi swimming in the water… or whatever koi do in ponds.It worked better then I expected.

There are tons of frogs in this pond. They make the most delightful squeak when scared. It doesn’t take much to scare them and the pleasure I take in their squeaking doesn’t work to their benefit. I see them leaping into the pond all the time, but I never see them creeping back on to the shore. I hoped to catch them in this video. Alas, I see none of the crafty little devils.

There are a couple variation of this time-lapse on youtube. This link is to all the movies I’ve posted on youtube. Note that one of them is nearing 10,000 views. That seems amazing to me.

The version for the festival was hi-def, it was a lot of bother to build and well over six hundred megabytes. I did make a few DVDs for my family, Tra-la. What you see here is in my standard 720×480 flv file format.

Without too much ado, I give you Unstuck…

Music:
Wanderlust
by ZikWeb and No Sushi

Sound Effects:
Train sound
by Cognito Perceptu

Clock sound
by cynical

Sound design:
by Karen Fasimpaur

Title Image:
Clock photo by Kevin Hamilton of Canada

I was not certain my entry would warrant inclusion. I have to say I was pretty excited to see my name among the list of this year’s entries.