I’m veering again from normal portrait work to share a time lapse movie of the construction/deconstruction of the back of our house. Cuz, ya know, it’s just super fun!
It shows 3 1/2 days last July condensed into just one minute! You’ll see there are some gaps in time. That’s because I found I had to change the battery in the camera every few hours — tricky during the summer when I was trying to take the kids away from the construction for long stretches of time.
The camera was located in the top level of our garage on a tripod. Every time I had to change the battery it meant stumbling past the dumpster, a mountain of building supplies, rubble, the workmen, and their collection of sacred lunch coolers. The contractor kindly ran an electric line up to the top of the garage for me, but I never did figure out how to power the camera off mains electricity. If anybody knows how to constantly power an old D200 please give me a shout!
Thanks to Adam (an actual, true-life video editor) for compiling this movie from my stills. I know this was ridiculously easy for you, but it saved me a world of frustration. And thanks to Dorrie for the Oscar-quality soundtrack.
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