A summer sky cloud time lapse with the Excelvan Q8 4K UHD Action Cam, is now on the Cloud Appreciation Society Website front page https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/
Cumulus clouds on a warm day billow across the sky and eventually disperse. Blackbirds, crows, pigeons and the sounds of nature fill the air. What a wonderful way to relax... All recorded from my English Country Garden :-) Filmed with the Excelvan Q8 4K Ultra HD action camera (video) and a Lumix FZ45 bridge camera (sound) and rendered with CyberLink Power Director 11.
A time-lapse study of mist and clouds at twilight, filmed in Great Torrington, North Devon, England. The swirling mist is very eerie and allows the viewer a glimpse into another world, one which exists in a much slower time frame.
As I experiment with time lapse photography, I begin to see nature at a
different, much slower speed. Mist and clouds have a completely different life
if you slow down your perception. At 30x speed, mist and cloud move like
creatures, they swirl, grow and dart from pace to place, they move like giant
waves and seem to have their own societies and will. This is not seen at normal
speed, as they are moving too slowly. We see them as static forms, devoid of
movement, but in a time-lapse film they come to life.
I can see that my own life has a deeper flow at this and even slower
speeds. There is the industrious 30Hz Beta brainwave frequency, in which we spend
most of our waking life, and the delta frequency of around 1Hz which is present
during deep sleep. The difference in frequency is the same magnitude as the
difference between our waking perception of static clouds and the time-lapse
speed where the clouds and mist come to life.
You cannot turn a supertanker on a dime. Life is like this, we may
make changes at 'normal speed' but only see the context of our life at the
slower speed. We become impatient for change because we expect everything to
happen at the Beta frequency. Our life comes into focus in months and years and
only then does the overall pattern become apparent. For me this is the pattern
of meditation, peace and subtle communion with the elements. To be at one with
this level of being I need to slow down, moving from staccato to stillness.
This is one for all you cloudspotters out there. A timelapse film taken at twilight in Great Torrington, Devon. It starts with a color study of clouds and an arching rainbow and ends with the moonrise of the August 2014 supermoon.
A cloud timelapse filmed with an Excelvan Q8 4K UHD action camera. Look out for the airplane contrail at 14 seconds, it appears at the top near the middle.
Pareidolia- A psychological phenomenon where you see familiar shapes in
random patterns, such as clouds. Also forms the basis of the Rorschach
inkblot test, which uses a random pattern to gain insight into mental
states. What do you see in these clouds? Faces, angels, letters?
