Timelapse Panoramas of Backyard Garden - Ottawa, Canada
The entire growing season of 2006. From April 9th 2006 to presend.
Not all panoramas are curently published.
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Everyday just after 6 O'clock in the evening I shot a
panorama of my garden from my backyard patio. I started shooting the
series on April 9th and I will continue to shoot and add to the series until
snow falls in October.
Everyday I went outside to the backyard to take the
pictures. I could physically see a difference in the flowers. I
could see the buds coming and flowers blooming. There was always
something different. Seeing two panoramas from consecutive days displayed
one after the next should reveal many changes.
I will put all images here as I get them stitched
together. As technologies improve I hope to be able to show the entire
series in a linear spherical movie that can be panned as time progresses.
As of this writing the technology for viewing this kind of media is not mature
enough.
I am not much of a gardener. I did not know what
I wanted for a garden when it first was created in 2002. My family took
control of all aspects of first setting it up. I have later learned that
I would like a very low maintenance garden. I have made a few changes to
this extent but not many. It takes time to save time. Some of the
bushes have grown too big. I hate cutting them back, but I will need to
cut them back and maybe also move them closer to the fence so they don't hide
other plants.
A regular supply of constant rain this season resulted
in everything growing very well including the lawn, which needed mowed
about every 4 to 5 days. I managed to find enough time to sneak in
between rainfalls to keep it cut.
Making of
Everyday, at about the same time (just after 6PM) I
shot a series of photographs to create a panorama. I shot these
from the exact same location on the backyard deck. I placed three screws
in the boards to mark the locations of the tripod legs. On April 9th,
I took the first panorama of the series. I will continue to shoot and add
to the series until snow falls in October.
In the current 3 months I have missed only about 4
days. This usually was because of way too much rain at the time. I
shot many days with light rain. I just put a piece of plastic over the
camera to protect it and took the zenith (up shot) last, to minimize the amount
of water on the lens.
In 2003, I created a few panoramas to show off
different stages of construction and improvements I was making to our back
yard. In 2004, I decided it would make a neat series shot from the same
location. I tried to shoot a pan every Saturday. The scene changed
too much from one week to the next. I knew I would have to take many more
images to make it smooth transition through the season. I never did
publish them on my web site and my hard disk crashed and I lost most of the
panoramas I shot that year. There are a few from 2003 still on my web
site. I was doing lots of construction that year and the back yard went
through some major changes. This year I only have some minor improvements
I want to make. The garden itself has matured quite nicely. So
instead of showing construction and improvements it now shows the garden itself
as it grows through the season.
If for nothing else, I will be able to use this to see
where I need to fill in some color holes (places and times where I don't have
flowers blooming).
