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Desert View Watchtower

WORDS AND PHOTO BY TERRANCE SIEMON

Time-lapse photography allows us to push the limits of traditional video, and the results are amazing. The final product of a time-lapse shoot produces a video that would otherwise be impossible to capture, like the Milky Way moving across the sky. Essentially anything that moves slowly to our naked eye — including plants, weather, stars, the aurora borealis, fog and even wildfire smoke — can make very interesting subjects for time-lapse projects.

Here, we see the Desert View Watchtower on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon displayed among a starry night sky. Grand Canyon National Park is one of several Dark Sky Parks across the West, making it the perfect destination to capture stunning time-lapse photos at night.

For more on time-lapse photography and to see time-lapse videos in motion, head to www.adventurepro.us/time-lapse-photography.