Amazing sights of the beautiful and wonderous world we live in.

Music: Loreena McKennitt – Night Ride Across the Caucasus

Via:equisdx

Video footages: Artbeats Grow Vol.1, Artbeats Grow Vol.2

Music: West One Music.
album: 098 Emotive Orchestral
Track: Through My Eyes (a)

Edit: Vladimir Vorobyov
Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5.2

Photo & edit: Tor Even Mathisen

Music by ferrie = differentieel
‘Strike the Cello’ is an attempt to Tame the Strings
this is the well known composition of Henry Purcell that i did some months ago at audio.dailym.net/2011/12/strike-the-drums-in-a-free-way/

“Strike the Cello” by differentieel is licensed under a Creative Commons License
“Strike the Cello” (differentieel) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Uniting timelapse and astronomical photography, we can captures the true beauty of the landscape and the night sky in one video, playing in a real but accelerated movement of the heavens. What happens in hours or days we can see it in seconds. What the eye cannot see because of darkness, we can capture and display as a video with colors and nuances impossible to catch during the day.

All videos are real, landscapes, stars, constellations, Milky Way etc. have been recorded using imaging techniques and astronomical special systems (cranes and rails) to achieve the effect of motion of the landscape and sky in the same sequence.
All scenes are recorded at night, the only light that illuminates the landscape is that of the moon and sometimes a few small foci.

My sincere gratitude to the Parque Nacional del Teide (Tenerife) for permission to filming in restricted areas, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in their observatories and telescopes.
The music used is the unique theme “La Búsqueda de Ianna” Epic Soul Factory. jamendo.com/es/track/732520

The scenes was recorded in the Parque Nacional del Teide (Tenerife) and the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma). Where they join one of the best skies in the world with a unique landscape.

You can contact Daniel Lopez
daniel.lopez@elcielodecanarias.com
facebook.com/elcielodecanarias

“Prie Dieu” is one of the designation in France for the praying mantis.

Shot on:
Canon EOS 550d, lens Zeiss Makro-Planar 100mm f/2 ZF
Canon EOS 60d, lens Canon MP E 65 mm f/2.8
Lumix GH1, lens : Voigtlander Micro 4/3 Nokton 25mm f/0.95

Music Amon Tobin – Surge (16bit remix) Gregorio Allegri – Miserere sound design Several tracks by Amon Tobin, Jan Driver, Skrillex, Murcof and 16bit.
Directed by Cokau · Achille Coquerel and Thomas Kauffmann

Astronomer’s Paradise is the first episode of Atacama Starry Nights timelapse movie series. Cerro Paranal is truly an astronomers paradise with its stunningly dark, steady and transparent sky. Located in the barren Atacama Desert of Chile it is home to some of the world’s leading telescopes. Operated by the European Southern Observatory (eso.org) the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on Paranal, composed of four 8 m telescopes which can combine their light to make a giant telescope by interferometry. Four smaller auxiliary telescopes, each 1.8 m in aperture, are important elements of the VLT interferometer.

Walking on the desert near Paranal between the scattered stones and boulders on the pale red dust feels like being on Mars but under the Earth sky. It is an amazing experience to be under an ideal night sky, a pure natural beauty unspoiled by urban lights. On Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert you look all around the horizon and there is no prominent sign of city lights, neither direct lights or light domes. There are not many locations left on this planet where you can still experience a dark sky like this. I have been to similar dark skies in other continents from the heart of Sahara in Algeria to Himalayas or islands in the Pacific. But what makes Atacama beat others is being dry and clear for so many nights per year. Paranal was selected for cutting edge astronomical observations also because of the sky transparency and steady atmospheric condition which let astronomers peer in to tiny details in the deep cosmos using giant telescopes.

This footage is made during an imaging expedition to Paranal assigned by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). All video rights reserved by Christoph Malin (christophmalin.com) and Babak Tafreshi (btafreshi@twanight.org) of The World at Night (TWAN) program (twanight.org). The inside observatory video is contributed by Stephane Guisard (astrosurf.com/sguisard).

The music theme is by Carbon Based Lifeforms (carbonbasedlifeforms.net). Song Arecibo extract from the album [Twentythree], write & produced by Johannes Hedberg and Daniel Segerstad, published by Ultimae (ultimae.com). Music remix by Tiny Types.

Take a journey through the wilderness in the heart of the American Southwest – Eastern Sierras, Grand Canyon, Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons, Rattlesnake Canyon, Vermillion Cliffs, North Coyote Buttes, the Wave, Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley, Grand Staircase Escalante and the December 2011 Lunar Eclipse.

Film by Henry Jun Wah Lee, Evosia Studios
Music is One Must Believe by Justin R. Durban, justindurban.com. Used with permission.
Motion / Timelapse gear from Kessler Crane. kesslercrane.com. Thanks Eric and Chris, for all your help and assistance.

No special effects. No composites. No CGI. Just the beauty of nature captured through the lens of the camera. :)

Cameras: Canon 5D Mk II, 7D, 60D.
Lenses: 14mm 2.8, 16-35 2.8, 24-70 2.8, 11-16 2.8.
Equipment: Kessler Crane modified for crane lapse, pocket dolly, oracle controller, 12 ft rail track with shuttle pod, various elecktra drive motors.

Equipment used:
Canon 1D mark IV + full Canon lens package – 17 tilt shift, 24, 50, 70-200, polarizer, gradient filter, monopod, tripod.

Music:
Bowspirit by: Balmorhea
Skeletons by: Yeah Yeah Yeahs

This is an Independent short film made for Pix’ n Love Editions.

The challenge: to create the rhythm with static shot.