DAKOTALAPSE

Some of my favorites from shooting timelapse in 2012. These were all frames from a timelapse. The timelapse will be out this winter. Click on Photos to Enlarge                    

      Update: Phil Plait also wrote this article about it. What are the odds that you can catch a meteor with a persistent train, in the same spot, one year later? On October 6th, 2012, I setup timelapse, in the location that I caught this one. 2011 Meteor […]

The other night, I shot a timelapse of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter conjunction west of Madison, WI. It was about 20 degrees, so not real cold, but cold enough to need some cold weather gear on the camera. The above video shows the short timelapse, and also a behind […]

    See the Temporal Distortion short with Bear McCreary’s music here. This extended cut excerpts video, features Simon Wilkinson’s music. Buy and download the 23 minute extended cut below. _______________________________________________________________________________________ What you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the […]

Featuring an original score by Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Eureka, etc) Bear wrote about composing Temporal Distortion here. Thanks to Bear for taking the time to do this! Download an MP3 of Bear McCreary’s Temporal Distortion on Amazon or on Itunes ________________________________________________________________ There is a 23 minute […]

On 10-24-2011 the forecast was for storm level Aurora displays. My son and I went out that night west of Madison, WI to shoot some timelapse and take stills of them. At one point they were so bright, they lit up the ground, it will be hard to edit the […]

  On 10-16-2011 I caught the International Space Station, rising next to the Milky Way, on 3 cameras that were shooting timelapse. The moon rose shortly after it passed. The timelapse above is slowed down when the ISS passes. Phil Plait also has an interesting article on it here. This […]

      Bad Astronomer on the Meteor and persistent train While shooting a Moon set with the Milky Way timelapse near the White River in South Dakota. I caught a meteor with a persistent train. It lasted for 68 frames of the timelapse then moved out of frame to […]

Tempest Milky Way won Best Overall and Audience Choice at the 2011 Chronos Film Festival Download an extended cut of this video here, with almost 1 minute of extra footage. 5$ See stills below. [nggallery id=8] Order prints and gallery wraps on Zenfolio Stills from footage on the extended cut. […]

During the month of May, I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota when I had the time, and the weather cooperated. The biggest challenge was cloudy nights and the wind. There were very few nights, when I could shoot, that were perfectly clear, and often the wind was […]