So for my Go Pro Hero cam’s inaugural run I got off the beaten path this Halloween morning… quite literally. Venturing from Silver Lake to Chinatown I got onto the largely unkown ped/bike way that parallels the 110 freeway and then ventured down to the LA River “bed,” where my proximity to its confluence with …
This incessantly slimy wet weather Los Angeles has been suffering with these last few days finally got me nostalgic enough for summer this weekend to battle my balky computer until I finally was able to get the above timelapse uploaded to YouTube. This is the last of four timelapse sequences recorded continuously between June 7 …
Stargazers with even the most basic of knowledge will rightfully scoff at the ignorance within which I’d adamantly maintained that Polaris was positioned at the end of the handle of the Big Dipper. As I finally discovered this weekend: wrong dipper. Polaris isn’t at the tip of Ursa Major (which includes the Big D), but …
Arachnophobes beware! I finally timed it right and captured the largest of the many orb weavers in our backyard this morning building its new web. This timelapse at a frame a second, captures about an hour’s worth of webspinning.
It’s roughly 80 seconds this phoebe (I think) spent at our bird bath, but through the magic of Quicktime I’ve put the way brief timelapse on an endless loop. Now all it needs is the appropriate musical accompaniment… “Rockin’ Robin” perhaps?
Here’s two hours in the afternoon of one of my Great Sunflower Project sunflowers, timelapsed down to eight minutes. In addition to all the bees that visit it as it bops around in the breeze, at one point (about 1:35 in) this bloom gets the attention of a spotless ladybug, and later (about 6:52 in) …
Answer: A flash-flood. If the Quicktime embed gives you trouble, here’s the YouTube link.