I spent another 6 hours running a time lapse trying to catch a peony blooming. I've come to the conclusion that these things are just too darned slow. From bud to complete bloom takes about three days. I'm patient, but have my limits.

So I went out tonight to do a time lapse of the sunset. They clouds had been interesting all day and I though it'd be a good time to try. However, by the time sunset started to come around, all the clouds in the west had broken up. Luckily, there was a storm off to the east that was just starting to break up, and the light had that "magic hour" look to it. So I did a series of this storm breaking up with part of one of the local wind farms in the foreground. I'm still working on my technique, so there's some rough spots where I haven't quite gotten the gist of time lapse camera moves down. But I think this one came out pretty good.

The video below covers a period of about three hours. Images were taken in six second increments, allowing the software to choose the exposure. There's a little bit of everything going on, and I think it makes for a pretty interesting video, although the amount of loss due to compression takes something away. I'd upload an uncompressed version, but at 1600 X 1200, it violates You Tube's size constraints. It's also been sized to fit the blog format, so if you click on the video and go to You Tube, you can see a larger version.

Enjoy...