The time-lapse journey started with my travel to Crater Lake in Oregon when I first captured the beauty of night sky over the amazing landscape of the volcanic lake. As I kept learning the art, I started traveling to locations to capture specific scenes based on calculating weather conditions and astronomical alignments to the landscape. I wished to capture unique alignments, cloud movements and reflections for which there was constant planning that went on my mind keeping track of wind conditions, cloud cover, storm movement, seasonal alignment changes of astronomical elements such as Sun, Moon, Milky Way galaxy etc.
The journey progressed and I started to feel and see the effect of climate change while trying to capture these beautiful places. Hood, Mt. Rainier were facing significant to severe drought conditions and was able to feel the change of water level in their water bodies such as rivers, water falls, and lakes as I tried to get back to same locations to capture different seasons and light conditions over the past 2 years.
The weather pattern changes were evident as well with the reduction of moisture and coastal fog cycle in the Pacific which were quite important for an ecological balance for coastal vegetation like redwoods that exists. The winter precipitation became a dream with very little snow fall over the sierras and volcanic peaks of Pacific Northwest. The winter Alaskan adventure turned out to be a trip with moderate winter temperatures and unusual weather patterns thru the state.
The summer became hotter with rise in temperatures close to unimaginable levels in most part of the country I was traveling in. Mountain glaciers were starting become a thing of the past with many of the glaciers melting fast with the high heat and not much of winter precipitation to maintain the level. The tidal patterns scared as the high tides got the water more closer to the shore and even caused coastal flooding during storms.
The unusual severe weather outbreaks were pretty frequent due to the climatic changes happening through out the country, though it provided some amazing light for me to capture it clearly highlighted the climate change we are going through.
