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Time-Lapse Techniques — A Dolly Shot

Time-lapse shooting has become immensely popular of late, but there’s nothing like a dolly shot to add interest to a scene . Among the more advanced techniques for shooting time-lapse movies is to...

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Moonlight on the Hoodoos

The stars shine in a bright moonlit sky over the Alberta Badlands. My feature image above is one of several still frames I took at the end of 4-hour photo shoot last Sunday at Dinosaur Provincial...

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Time-Lapse Techniques — Creating Star Trails

The stars wheel above the Cretaceous-age sediments of Dinosaur Provincial Park. One of the most powerful techniques in the nightscape photographer’s arsenal is to stack lots of short-exposure images...

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Time-Lapse: Northern Lights and Noctilucent Clouds

What strange clouds these are, moving where there shouldn’t be winds, and forming where there’s barely any air. These are noctilucent clouds, sometimes called polar mesospheric clouds. Their icy...

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Night of the Noctilucent Clouds

It was a beautiful summer evening, with stars wheeling overhead in a moonlit sky and the only clouds far away and interesting. This was one of those nights we get once or twice a summer when the...

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Night of the Northern Lights

The Northern Lights danced all night, as Earth was buffeted by winds from the Sun. As soon as I saw the warning notices at Spaceweather.com I was hoping we would be in for a wonderful night of aurora...

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Harvest Moon Panoramas

The Harvest Moon rises into the dark arc of the Earth’s shadow. What a perfect night this was. The Full Moon rose into a crystal clear sky, tinted with the dark blue shadow of our planet arching...

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Equinox Highway

Highway One heads into the setting equinox Sun. I try for this shot every year, and every year I’m thwarted by low clouds over the Rockies to the west. So here’s the shot from tonight, Monday,...

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The Eclipse in Time-Lapse

Here’s the Atlantic Crossing eclipse in time-lapse from the deck of the spv Star Flyer. The above image is a still frame from the time-lapse movie I took on November 3, 2013 of the 44-second-long...

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Time-Lapse – Alberta Skies 2013

  It was a good year for time-lapse photography at home. Here’s my compilation of Alberta time-lapses in a 3-minute music video. For a year-end look back at 2013 I assembled these highlights of my...

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Music Video – Sky Events of 2013

  My 2-minute music video looks back at some of the celestial highlights of 2013, in images and videos I captured.  Some of the events and scenes I show were accessible to everyone who looked up. But...

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Waves of Northern Lights in Time-Lapse

Watch waves of aurora wash over the sky rising out of the west to swirl overhead. This was the spectacle we saw Friday night at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, as the northern lights filled our...

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McDougall Church under Moonlight

The historic pioneer church at Morley, Alberta stands under moonlight on the banks of the Bow. Last night, after presenting a talk on time-lapse techniques to the Cochrane Camera Club, I headed west...

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Aurora Over the Old Barn

What a fabulous night this was! Forewarned about an impending solar storm I headed to the site of a rustic barn near home to shoot the Northern Lights. The night started with cloud but upon looking...

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A Windy Day on the Wind Farm

It was windy day out on the wind farm, with some wonderful cloudscapes blowing by. Shooting time-lapse movies by day is so much easier than shooting at night! Yesterday, to try out some new gear and...

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Sunset on the Range

The setting Sun provided a fine light show on the open range of the Canadian Prairies. This was the scene Friday evening, July 4, as the Sun lit up the clouds in the big sky of the Historic Reesor...

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Table Mountain Time-Lapses

I present a set of short time-lapse videos shot at the Table Mountain Star Party. At the star party in Washington state last week I shot about a 3-hour-long set of images each night for assembly into...

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Rocky Mountain Nights – A Time-Lapse Collage

  My new 4-minute video presents time-lapse and still images shot in the Rockies this past summer. It’s been a busy summer for shooting. Since July I’ve spent a week each in Banff, Jasper and Waterton...

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My new eBook on Nightscapes & Time-Lapse Photography

I’m pleased to announce my new ebook, How to Photograph and Process Nightscapes and Time-Lapses The ebook describes — How to shoot and process still image “nightscapes” – images of landscapes taken at...

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Comet Lovejoy Moving Amid the Stars

Comet Lovejoy is now at its best. I captured a time-lapse of it moving through the stars. Last night I shot Comet Lovejoy with a couple of cameras. One, using a telephoto lens, captured the green...

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