Congleton Time Lapse Project - Now with audio soundtrack

This is the finished version with a new audio track. Time lapse's need an audio track and one that represents just something of the mood of the visuals. I think that this soundtrack polishes the piece off nicely, though a bespoke soundtrack is being created by people who actually understand music (absolutely not me). It took a long time to learn the process of capturing time lapse photography, understand the equipment and software, and research the project, plus many days standing or wandering around Congleton. The people of Congleton were incredibly friendly and the staff at The Victoria Mill (featured in the final sequence) were wonderful in offering encouragement, advice on locations and information about the area.
Comments are very welcome on my blog.

Congleton Time Lapse Project

I have been trying to include my Congleton work in this blog but at the moment this blogger site won't take it, probably because my time lapse is 1080p HD. Anyway, please check the link below to see it on YouTube and please let me know what you think. I will put it on here as soon as it lets me.

'click here for my Congleton Time Lapse on YouTube'

First Experimental Time Lapse

 

This was a short experimental time lapse that I did during the time while I was learning the processes and software etc. It took 20 minutes to shoot and a few hours to edit and build and it gave me the confidence to then tackle a week long time lapse project in Congleton.

Although experimental, I still attempted to get my theme of time and perception into it by shooting at pram height and trying to make it give the feeling of mystery and confusion that people believe represents the perception of an infant trying to understand the world from its own point of view, with poor colour vision and other senses still developing. How would you see the world with limited senses and without self-awareness?

Try to watch this with high volume and in a dark room in order to suppress your own adult senses as much as possible. please let me know what you think and if you like it then please share it with your friends via facebook or other social network sites.

Work for Exhibition at The Victoria Mill, Congleton

Positively Eroded by Lee William Hughes
As part of a wider investigation into the theme of 'Time', I used my first experiences of Congleton to look into the way that environmental factors can augment our common spaces and street furniture. This change may occur slowly and unnoticed, bringing new forms and dimensions to what was originally placed there by human hands.
I found that time could be 'read' in the slow build up of lichen over centuries, the effects of sunlight and moisture on porous surfaces, the twisting of beams and the decay of a commonly referenced street corner in a busy thoroughfare. Such environmental erosion may be too pedestrian for us to observe as a constant linear change, yet is revealed more clearly when frozen as a fresh moment in time and taken out of context with their intended space. Perhaps over time these objects and spaces gain a visual character that can offset the negative implications of erosion or degradation on our own shared habitat.