22/04/2015
"The Untouched - A Time-lapse Film" is a project I have been working on, for the past 2 years across different National and State parks in the country. The primary vision of the video is to showcase the untouched beauty of few of our National/State Parks across USA and to create awareness about conserving natural resources of our planet, including preserving our skies.
Being a true nature enthusiast at heart, and a travel photographer by passion, I used to chase good light whenever I got an opportunity. But after getting inspired from some of the world’s renowned time-lapse film makers, I wished to spend more time in nature and capture the essence of light, landscape and time.
This film is about how the weather conditions and light changes with time over the landscape.
The time-lapse journey started with my travel to Crater Lake in Oregon when I first captured the beauty of night sky over the amazing landscape of the volcanic lake. This time-lapse sequence ignited my passion to move forward to learn and fine-tune my skills on how to capture the change of light more efficiently and professionally. As a beginner, I had my pitfalls and mistakes which were pretty costly as I lost the valuable time and the stunning light over exotic landscapes which I could never get back. The more I failed, the more I wanted to get better.
As I kept learning the art, I started traveling to locations to capture specific scenes based on calculating weather conditions and astronomical alignments to the landscape. I wished to capture unique alignments, cloud movements and reflections for which there was constant planning that went on my mind keeping track of wind conditions, cloud cover, storm movement, and seasonal alignment changes of astronomical elements such as the sun, moon, and Milky Way galaxy.
The journey progressed and I started to feel and see the effect of climate change while trying to capture these beautiful locations. Places in the west coast of USA like Mono Lake, Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mt. Hood, and Mt. Rainier are facing significant to severe drought conditions. I noticed the change in water level in rivers, water falls, and lakes as I returned to the same locations to capture different seasons and light conditions over the past 2 years. The weather pattern changes were evident as well with the reduction of moisture and coastal fog cycle in the Pacific which were quite important for an ecological balance for coastal vegetation like redwoods that exists.
Unusual, severe weather outbreaks are frequent due to the climatic changes happening throughout the country. Though it provided some amazing light for me to capture, it clearly highlighted that climate change is occurring. Through filming, I found much stronger objective to achieve for “The Untouched”
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- See more at: http://www.earthday.org/blog/2015/04/21/untouched .URGWj4R2.dpuf
"The Untouched - A Time-lapse Film" is a project I have been working on, for the past 2 years across different National and State parks in the country.
