Yosemite National Park is an elemental place, one formed from a beautiful union of stone, wood, water and light. There is a wonderful time-lapse film project, Project Yosemite, filmed by Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill, that attempts to capture this elemental beauty. It has stunning vistas showing the changing light of both day and night set against the backdrop of some of the park’s iconic landmarks.
The night scenes with the heavens moving above as shooting stars fire across the starry sky are pretty incredible as are the movements of the climbers on some of the massive rock faces. They appear as bug-like figures and at night they become fireflies as their lights cast tiny but bright specks of light against the granite monoliths.
There are two great films. Take a look and definitely check out the Project Yosemite site. Just beautiful work.
Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
Yosemite HD II from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
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