Paraglider Kym Fielke‘s beautiful 4-minute film, Silver Lining, is showing at the 38th annual Coupe Icare 2011 Free Flight Film Festival at St Hilaire in France. He shot the film in South Australia during 2010 around Adelaide, Mt Lofty Ranges, Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Mid North and Flinders Ranges. Over 8800 photos were used to construct the master timelapse sequences.



Camera: Canon 7D
Lenses: Canon EF-S 17-85mm & 10-22mm
Software: Digital Photo Professional, Photoshop, VirtualDub and Premiere Pro CS5
Music: Phorous, by L.S.G. from the album Into Deep (discogs.com/​LSG-Into-Deep/​master/​46740)

Benjamin Turquet, Member No. 27,655, sent us his video showing time-lapse footage of an evening Cumulonimbus cloud developing over Montreal, Quebec, Canada, along with film of the lightning storm that followed. Was the thunderhead trying to communicate something to us Earthlings?

This short time lapse of the evening sky over Recanati, Italy, was filmed by Marco Cingolani. Music is by Simon Wilkinson.

This time lapse of the changeable skies over Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Ireland was sent in by Steve Potter, Cloud Appreciation Society Member No. 27,500. “I shot it on 16 June 2011,” he said, “using my Nexus1 Google Android phone and the Time-Lapse app. The music is by Cara Dillon. This really shows you why Ireland is so green!”

Time-lapse of Sun, Rain, & Clouds over the Avoca River, Ireland from Steve M. Potter on Vimeo.

Anita Evans, Cloud Appreciation Society Member No 16,612, sent us her time lapse film of cumulus clouds bubbling up over the island of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. We love it.

Mull in the Morning from camerabag on Vimeo.

Denis Farmer posted this YouTube video from his back garden when he saw a face appearing in the storm clouds over Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Canada. We think his comment half-way through rather sums it up: “Hoooooly Freak!”.

Sent in by Juergen K. Klimpke, Member No. 22868.



Time-lapse recording of the morning sky over Schleiz (Thuringia, Germany). The clouds give a view of the sun. Aeroplanes hurry scurry across the screen and produce aircraft contrails. This pull over before the sun and then finally make space for a blue summer sky.
Footage and music by Juergen K. Klimpke.
Shot on Canon EOS D300.

Here is a fantastic time lapse cloud video by Simon Christen. We are big fans.

A collection of time lapses I took around the San Francisco Bay Area roughly shot over the period of one year.
Please watch in HD :-)
Find more of my work on my website www.simonchristen.com
Follow me on my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Simon-Christen-Photography/183499695028114
or on my flickr account: www.flickr.com/seemoo
Music by Nick Cave – Mary’s Song from the Soundtrack of “Assassination of Jesse James”

This time lapse video by Ian Provo from the summer of 2010 has plenty of fantastic cloud sequences. Of particular interest are the lapping wave effects of some Stratocumulus clouds, which are a great reminder that the atmosphere above us is an ocean of air, which contains waves similar to those in the oceans of water around us. Most of the time, these waves of air are unseen by us – except when they are rendered visible by their effect on the glorious clouds.

Summer of 2010 – Time Lapse Edit from Ian Provo on Vimeo.

During the summer of 2010, I began shooting time lapses. Its a pretty neat form of cinematography thats slowly becoming an obsession of mine. While the rewards are sometimes quite nice, it can be very time consuming and frustrating, particularly during the learning stage. They seem to give you a perspective on the landscape that you could never get otherwise. All the clips in this piece were shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, on various camping, fishing, and skiing trips in Utah, Colorado, and Chile.

Cloud Appreciation Society member Mark van der Vord sent in this video of the sunset from the London Eye.

The London Eye in two minutes/Inside by Sepalcure from mach v on Vimeo.
Mark told us:
A week before my birthday, I learnt that I’d won some tickets to The London Eye, courtesy of The Thames Festival on the condition that they were used by Feb 24th. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to do something cinematic with it, my wife and I wanted to either catch a sunset or a night-time ride so I could film it and Miko could take some pictures. However the weather wasn’t being our friend. Each day rolled by and the blanket of dull, grey skies (OH HAI nimbostratus!) seemed like it would never break. What we wanted was the pressure to drop (opening up the skies to more exciting cloud formation) and a warm front start to move in from the west, preferably around tea time. It looked like it wasn’t to be until the very last day of our ticket, so on 24th February, I managed to take an hour off work early and I met up with Miko at The Eye at 5pm. just as the sun was rolling over the horizon. We exchanged our tickets and queued… and prayed that we got on the ride before the sunset got any good. I think that we got the perfect view.

Cloudspotter, Clive Blundell, sent us a link to his film, Gods, Mortals and Morals. It depicts Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walküre, but with the characters represented by shapes in the clouds. We think the operatic tale of Norse mythology seems to fit rather well with his images of clouds shaped like gods. What do you think?

Click here to see Clive’s Gods, Mortals and Morals.

Camera Murray Fredericks
Editing Lindi Harrison
Original Sound Tommy Shutzinger

This time-lapse assembly is part of the Hector Thunderstorm Project being produced in northern Australia. The first exhibition of stills from the project are on exhibition in Melbourne at Arc 1 Gallery from the 24th of May until the 18th of June.
Special thanks to the Tiwi Land Council, Phase One and L&P Digital Photographic for their support of the project.

Timelapse footage of wildfire north of Los Angeles, 08.30.09

Footage by Dan Blank. Music by Brian Eno.
Shot on Panasonic HS-300.
Actual length: 40 mins.
Filmed from Tarzana, CA

clouds go by from camerabag on Vimeo.

Another Cloud Reel … from Delrious on Vimeo.

Footage I shot over the summer of 2009 mostly in the San Francisco bay area.
Music by His Boy Elroy.