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15,000 photos of Cherry Beach in four minutes
Earlier this week we shared an impressive time-lapse video of Toronto made for the Belarusian rock band, Lyapis Trubetskoy. It was pretty fantastic from a photographic standpoint, even if it wasn't so appealing to North American ears. Well, here's a rival to that video, one with equally impressive imagery and far more palatable music (by the Handsome Furs).
The work of Ben Lean (who goes by *Imperialis* on Flickr), the time-lapse is composed of a whopping 15,000 still photographs, all of which were taken in and around Cherry Beach this winter. We've actually already featured a couple of these in our photo of the day and other posts, so it's exciting to see the complete project. Time-lapses tend to work best with bustling subject matter like city streets and malls, but this effort proves an exception to that rule with its clever documentation of life along the waterfront. Having said that, my absolute favourite part comes at the 2:50 mark when the sun suddenly sets on the Toronto skyline. Just superb stuff. Check it out below.
Cherry Ice from Ben Lean on Vimeo.
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Cheers,
Michael
But how did he get all these shots of Cherry Beach without a single dog in them?! Every time I go its like Dogapalooza out there :)
There are so many wonderful things here. The great sense of depth. The shifting of the ice. The movement of the stars, clouds and planes. The bobbing birds. The lights into the clouds.
The song choice is perfect. The first verse of the Handsome Furs’ What We Had is “It's cold. A plain diamond. Nobody’s here, just empty space. It’s all moving, breathing. Stuck to the ceiling, don’t mean a thing.”