Events

First snowfall of 2008

As I drove home from work yesterday, a light snowfall started coming down. I took out my mobile phone and recorded this video clip. I was at the Georgetown Rd exit off I-495, in Bethesda, MD.

http://blip.tv/file/3048283

See this video on blip.tv or SmugMug.

If I am to be accurate, I should say it’s not the first snowfall of the season, but the second. It is, however, the first I managed to capture on video. We had another brief snowfall earlier in the week, which, much like this one, melted upon contact and didn’t even wet the ground.

I see that others are getting much more snow [via], but given what they have to go through, I’ll take my little snowfall over this dangerous winter morning any day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_ghixVN78
YouTube – Car crash in snow

Lists

Videos about photography

I thought I’d share a few of my favorite videos about photography with you. The first video is called “Miniature Earth”, and the photos used in it are really powerful.

This next video took two years to make. It’s called “Koya Moments”, and chronicles the changing weather, light and seasons over Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dove put out a video showing the transition that takes place in makeup and Photoshop to make a model look good. It’s pretty sad really, to see that beauty is not only skin-deep but also quite elusive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

I believe this time lapse video was done by a French director, who drove across America with a friend of his in a convertible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-unBigvoY

This is a beautiful time lapse video of the 2006 Reno Balloon Race: