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Timelapses can be amazing when done properly — and though I don't know how to do them very well (yet), I do know how to recognize them when I see them — and I'm here to share three recent incredibly beautiful examples.

And, in case you're interested in learning about how to do timelapses like these, I highly recommend the site timescapes.org — a site that was set up by Tom Lowe (@timescapes) (see his latest timelapse — second one below) and Jay Burlage (@MILapse) from Dynamic Perception (@DynPerception). The folks at Dynamic Perception are creating some inexpensive motion rail systems with timelapse timers involved if you're looking to get started in this endeavor (read more). As you'll see in these samples, timelapses often have camera movement in them now, making them just a little bit more visually appealing.

The first is from Australia called Salt (a film by Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks) and you can actually buy this one on DVD. This is just the 'trailer'. It is incredible because Murray takes these five-week-long treks out on this salt bed lake (which is dry most of the time) which gives some beautiful backdrops to make timelapses.

And this one just released this morning from Tom Lowe — one of the founders of timescapes.org that we mentioned above — he's spending an entire year making timelapses for a new feature length project he's calling "Timescapes".

Those are three incredible examples!

Hope you enjoyed them and maybe they'll inspire you to get out and shoot something.

planetMitch