Hyperlapse from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe:

I-80, SR 49, SR20, I-80 some more, SR 267 to Kings Beach.

This didn't look like a terrible idea the morning of December 26 (Boxing Day), the weather forecast was good. Google Maps predicted a little under four hours. Then it started to snow. And then there were many crashes, I-80 shut in both directions and the resulting jam took over six hours to clear.

Most of the hyperlapse runs at a 80-130x speedup. The jam portion is over 1000x.

In case you are insane here is the full drive, minus charging and food stops:

Shot on Rivian Drive Cam, post-processed as per this post, edited in DaVinci Resolve Studio, music hallucinated by Eleven Labs.

Brief time lapse of sunset looking towards the Ponte 25 de Abril (a mashup of the Golden Gate and Bay bridges) in Lisbon, Portugal.

Timelapse of sunset, moonrise and sunrise from Homer in Alaska.

Timelapse shot from Panoramic Park at the top of Yerba Buena Island. This features the Point of Infinity sculpture, the Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, Angel Island, Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge and downtown San Francisco.

Time lapse of the L Taraval light rail from West Portal station to the San Francisco Zoo. The L shut down during the pandemic and then years of construction replaced the tracks (and water lines, and sewers). It finally returned in September of 2024. I made a time lapse of the construction phase outside my house.

A hyperlapse of the ~4hour drive from San Francisco to Shasta Lake in California. Shot on Rivian Drive Cam. Details for getting usable footage from that here. Edited in DaVinci Resolve.

A 4k timelapse of the night sky, including the milky way, shot from Lakehead, California over three nights in late November / early December 2024. Best enjoyed on a big screen in a dark room. Winter has the benefits of long nights and I was delighted to be in a dark place with no full moon for a change. You don't get the galactic core like you do in the summer though. Check out this Jasper version for the summer view.

The inevitable sequel to More Bangalore Sunsets, brought to you again by leaving a camera on the window of the Shangri-La Hotel.

Time lapse of sunset over Lviv in Ukraine. Shot from the Premier Hotel Dnister at the top of Ivan Franko Park.

San Francisco gets a lot of fog in the summer. This brief time lapse, shot from Mount Tamalpais and the Marin Headlands shows just how much.