A macro study of vapor through sun beams.
The particle structures you see are real, not VFX.
I’ve pushed color, glow and light beam effects.
I wrote the Music with a mix of PaulStretch’d stems from a pop EDM piece. I added new writing with custom Serum patches, Pipe Organ and Choir over top the stretched stems.
A clip of the original sketch the processed layers came from. Recognize anything?
Our homes were safe, but from our area of the county, you could see 2 of the fires that spread south of LA during that season of fires.
I was able to capture some scenes of the fire fighting air craft working the scene with my telephoto.
For a season, Allen claimed our feeder as his land. He defended it fiercely from his foes.
Growing comfortable with my presence over time, I was able to get some nice shots.
I wrote the music to be uplifting and light.
An enjoyable start to the day.
Slime molds are fascinating. This is a self-organizing single cell organism.
In this 18 hour short, the structure and path it takes is an example of it's biological algorithm. An algorithm so efficient at creating the shortest path between objects (ie… food), that it was used to create software optimizing subway paths in cities.
Discovering these in one of my aquarium ecosystems was really neat.
2 days of time lapse and macro video of some of my favorite areas of Laguna Niguel during the wet season of 2022.
My favorite shots are at the end with panning timelapses of some of my favorite views and the valley behind our home next to route 5 that I run, hike and cycle in every week.
You can go years on the coast without seeing these guys and then suddenly one week in 2023, they were out in abundance during their mating season on the trails around home.
A detail I discovered about these tarantulas during editing is that their hairs respond to static electricity around plants and other life. This is one of their primary senses. Their eyesight is terrible, so they feel their environment through electrostatic means in more detail than they see.
Before they returned to their usual nocturnal cycle, I caught a few on my 100mm macro on a Friday evening after work.