Lake O'Hara Zoomwalk, 2011-2013

Over three years, from 2011 to 2013, I eked out some time during our annual visits to Lake O'Hara to accumulate a series of photos that, assembled together, would provide a rapid video-walk, or zoomwalk, around the lake. This blog post publishes the result of that effort.

Given the different days and months in which the constituent photos were taken, this video shows rapid appearance and disappearance of snow, and changes in lighting. It also bobs and weaves with the wriggling trail, but I hope you may nonetheless enjoy it or find it illuminating. I used 1,713 photos to create about three and a half minutes of video.

At 1:12 into the video there appears to be a stutter. It's actually my attempt to highlight a big change between two years; here is a photo from Sept. 15, 2011.

Note the bench hiding behind the short tree at left. Now look at this same scene on July 27, 2012. The bench has been moved in front of a large tree that fell over sometime in the previous ten months.

I interleaved and repeated some of the 2011 and 2012 frames at this spot to give the viewer a chance to compare the two years, but it didn't work as well as I hoped. Forewarned, perhaps you can catch it, starting at 1:12 in the video.



And so after three and a half years this video project is complete. Time to move on!