Lands Of Beauty

There is just something about time lapse videos that mesmerize me. Maybe it's the abundance of time - how you feel each minute as it passes by at hyper speed, never feeling quick, but heavy - even though the images are zooming by, each minute is there, and you know it.

Throw in some good music to groove to while the images are before my eyes? You got me. Hook, line, and sinker. I'm lost in the piece for as long as it runs.

So what is it about these two following videos that reach out to me? Well, this first one, by happenstance, if as if you threw my vacation back in July into fast forward. The whole state of California in under three minutes. It has a little bit of everything - the desert, San Francisco, Yosemite (you should be able to recognize the waterfall from some of my previous photos), and of course, Los Angeles. It really captures the wonder of the state, how we have everything at our fingertips - mountains ranges, deserts, plains, and vast metropolises. Simply, this video just bring a smile to my face - makes me proud of my state and leaves me in awe of its beauty.




Now, this second video caught me off guard. I've never had much interest in Iceland. I had heard it was beautiful - if not a tad bit cold (not as bad as Greenland though), and full of untouched nature. We all got glimpses of it this summer in Ridley Scott's Prometheus, but the following video really opened my eyes to how undamaged Iceland's landscape is. Consider this now on my list of places to go. The lush green grass, towering waterfalls, illuminated night sky, glaciers - it all seems so wonderful - almost too perfect to be real. I know I have many places on my list to go first, but hopefully this will be in my future.