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"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
This is a screen grab from a timelapse i released today
When I started timelapse photography a year ago I thought it would be something I could just jump right into and master, as I've been taking stills for nearly a decade now. But I was quickly humbled by the medium as I struggled to put together worthwhile footage after repeated early attempts. This, I realized, was a whole other animal.
Over and above all the technical challenges — motion control gear, constantly changing light, aperture flicker — shooting a timelapse forces you to look inside: after setting up your shot, there’s often not much you can do for hours, but sit up there and ponder while the camera does it's thing. The relationship between the cold glass, steel and concrete below coupled with the often majestic clouds, sky and sun/moon never ceases to be a source of wonder. And so the purpose of what you’re doing becomes a frequent question in your mind.
With City Rising I wanted to bring others up to this perspective, and from here, show them the city as they have never seen it before — where the boundary between earth and sky is unclear and the placid beauty of the city lays spread out below, quietly humming along. City Rising takes the viewer straight through rush hour traffic to the highest urban peaks and the clouds above it all, all in under four minutes.
The misty city morning dreaming mood feeling at twin peaks. Yes, it was about like in a sleeping mode when I came up to here seeing such view. Totally lucky snapshot :) It was about perfect amount of fog that covered the city with these tall buildings and the bridge towers. Have you seen such low fog in person? it is about time of the season this year.
#colors #morning #mistycity #sanfrancisco #alwayssf #lowfog #luckysnapshot