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Brad Goldpaint
Star trails whirl through the skies over California's Mount Shasta in a time-exposure photo by Brad Goldpaint. For more of Goldpaint's work, check out his website.
Time-lapse is one of the hottest trends in photography nowadays, thanks in part to the wider availability of high-end cameras, high-resolution video and high production values. But you need some high-class talent behind the lens as well.
It doesn't hurt that the past year has been a gold mine for the glories of the night sky, especially the northern lights. We've featured quite a few time-lapse videos of the aurora, as seen from Earth and from space, and you can click through a few of our favorites below. The latest stunner to surface comes from Pacific Northwest photographer Brad Goldpaint, whose work we featured just a few days ago.
Goldpaint's three-minute time-lapse, titled "Within Two Worlds," features three years' worth of sky imagery collected from a variety of locales — including Tumalo Falls, the Three Sisters Wilderness, Crater Lake and Sparks Lake in Oregon, as well as the High Sierra, Mono Lake and Mount Shasta in California.
"I discovered my passion for photography shortly after my mother’s passing while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail three years ago," Goldpaint writes. "This time-lapse video is my visual representation of how the night sky and landscapes co-exist within a world of contradictions. I hope this connection between heaven and earth inspires you to discover and create your own opportunities, to reach your rightful place within two worlds."
For more of Goldpaint's perspectives on the two worlds, check out the Goldpaint Photography website, or his Facebook or Google+ page.
But before you do that, click into the video below and turn it up to full-screen resolution.
Within Two Worlds from Goldpaint Photography on Vimeo.
More time-lapse wonders:
- Cameras roll on Manhattanhenge
- Northern lights spark summer delights
- Auroral fireworks blaze on video
- Northern lights shine through a crack
- Time-lapse view of aurora from space
- The best of NASA's night lights
Alan Boyle is NBCNews.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following @b0yle on Twitter and adding the Cosmic Log page to your Google+ presence. To keep up with Cosmic Log as well as NBCNews.com's other stories about science and space, sign up for the Tech & Science newsletter, delivered to your email in-box every weekday. You can also check out "The Case for Pluto," my book about the dwarf planet and the search for new worlds.
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Now that is real cool, thanks Alan.
That's sooo beautiful. I just want to lose myself in that stunning wonder! ^_^
Beautiful...and what's really cool is that in the clusters of night stars at 1:05 there is a face of a wolf in the foreground on the right and coming right up behind it on the left at 1:06 is a lion. Then again at 2:09 there is what I think looks like a mountain lion on the right. Wasn't even looking for anything..just was there. Creatures of nature!
I want whatever your taking:)
That's a good one John. Seriously, no one else saw the animals? No wonder I did good with the ink splatter tests ( forgot what they are called). I guess working at Disney for 16 years one's eye gets trained at what the animators sneak in. At least I didn't say I saw a hidden Mickey! Ugh.
God's many wonders and creations!
ehh!! not impressed! Where are the naked ladies in those stars? lol that'd impress me :)
Those are hollywood stars you goof.
Wow.
Only six posts? Oh I thought this was on a story about Zimmerman and Travon shooting.
Not about something so wonderful and brilliant as to jar the imagination that something greater then us is out there.
I am going back to the other comment section to realize we are so caught up with nothing important, but what the media deams is via brainwashing. And where everyone is nasty and opinionated.
Wow , great video ....
I was lucky enough to spend about 4 weeks in Mt. Shasta with a friend last year who also drove me up to Crater Lake for a ride around the Crater ....
I still say and think that there is no picture , that can capture a good perspective of Crater lake ....
Where I stayed in Mt. Shasta was only a few miles from the mountain to the north and I had a clear view of the mountain from the back home deck ....
At night I couldn't see but a few feet in front of me from the darkness ....
The Milky Way view was great ....
But the high desert plain and altitude with almost zero humidity was rather harsh and so dry that it made my nose bleed ....
After a couple of days I slept with a humidifier which fixed that problem ....
The hummingbirds were there all day everyday and hung out in the Juniper trees ....
There was lots of deer , Magpies , coyote's , ground squirrels and rabbits also ....
There is also a tiny stream near Mt. Shasta , where they say is the farthest the salmon can travel to spawn ....
When I was there , I was lucky enough to see about 5 or so pairs of salmon spawning as I stood on a tiny wooden bridge a few miles west from where I was staying ....
I could go on and on about how cool it was there ....
But I'll stop there ....
Thanks Alan ....
Stay curious ....
Unfortunately (for me) my internet connection speed means I'll have to wait until tuesday to watch it...the 14, 1.5 second segments I've watched so far...are great...I spent 4 years near Joshua Tree National Monument back in the late 80's-->early 90's...it's like is whole new sky when viewed from a desert
I gotta say folks...this is perhaps the best feel good article to come out in a very loooong time...the heart really needed this uplifting assurance that the best is still yet to come.
Great music...Bravo...
All the stars were computer generated animations, faked just like the moon landings....right Johnny?
(sarcasm at Johnny's comments about the Apollo hoax in another article)
You have to admit we live in an amazing place and at an amazing time. As always,thank you Alan.
This made my morning. Makes you realize how wonderful and beautiful the world is and how truly insignificant human beings are.
Psalm 19, NIV
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they display knowledge.
3 There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.[a]
4 Their voice[b] goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
Amen...
Did you know that this verse is actually telling about how the Jews knew that Jesus was the messiah, because His birth was foretold in the stars and they all knew about it...
Peter and Paul both referenced this verse in the NT...
NICE!
Thank goodness for gravity, it almost makes me feel like I'll spin off. I forgot how many shooting stars there are, constantly, everywhere!
Nicely done, but the sound seems biased to a high value.
I have never see a piece of art that so speaks as my internal discussion every day. Me in art! Wow absolutely soulful. Thank you!
Very beautiful. I'd love seeing more articles like this.
Great video - beautiful photography! I really enjoyed this - thanks!
this was so awesome. At points, I forgot that we are just on a spinning rock in the universe. Seeing the stars staying constant and yet we move makes me realize that there are more important things out there than my petty problems and issues. This video was great to put things into perspective.
WOW! Thank you for capturing the beauty of the heavens. As I watched the thought crossed my mind that while we have the perception that it is the stars that are moving, it is really the planet turning on it's axis. If you watch it from that perspective it's mind boggling that we are turning toward a new vista all the time...truly. It takes the spiral arm we are in millions of years to circle the galaxy, and we are constantly "viewing" an area of the sky that no human has seen before. (No matter how small the incremental movement across the sky might be...as we "seem" to see the same stars all the time...we are theoretically seeing a new teeny, tiny slice of the sky every night).
Thank you, Alan, for sharing... thank you, Brad for the beautiful video and by the way, great music, too!
Awesome.
The Goldpaint video is stunning. Thanks for sharing, Alan.
I want to find out where everyone of those places are and go travel... That was gorgeous!