Experience this breathtaking journey to America greatest national treasures, our National Parks. The magic of time-lapse photography brings the majesty and wonder of these special places right into your living room as you visit Alaska, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Big Sur, Glacier, Grand Tetons, Bryce, Zion, Arches and more.
拱桥国家公园:整个Arches公园里,最容易见到的拱桥,位于The Windows Section(窗口区域),仍然需要徒步500米。在这里,拱桥被称以南窗(South Window)北窗(North Window),极形象的一种称谓,因为它们看上去更像是在一面岩石上被“凿”开了一个洞,只不过洞很大,如一扇窗子,透过它,可以看到远处的风景。如果你将目光聚焦在洞的上半部和岩石顶端,便会感觉出那是一座桥梁,是大自然在1亿5千万年前造就的桥梁。
For Tom, timelapse started out as a hobby. Braving the conditions, he would camp out in places such as Yosemite, or Joshua Tree National Park, shooting the night sky, then editing the footage and uploading short films to Vimeo.com. People started to take notice, with some of his Vimeo videos racking up hundreds of thousands of views. Simultaneously, Lowe launched the Timescapes.org forum, the largest community of timelapse shooters on the internet, which has grown to over 5,000 members.
This led to a chance encounter on the internet with New Zealand composer and entrepreneur Nigel “John” Stanford. After a brief email conversation, “TimeScapes” the movie was born, with Stanford agreeing to fund the movie and provide Tom with a 4K Red MX digital cinema camera, while Canon USA sponsored the film by providing Lowe with 5.6K 5D Mark II DSLRs and lenses.
Production involved many hardships. Tom slept outdoors for 250 nights, sleeping on cots (without tents) under the stars next to his camera, while timelapse was being captured. During the middle of principle photography on “TimeScapes”, Lowe won the Astronomy Photographer of the year award in 2011, with the above image, 'Blazing Bristlecone' - featuring a 4,000-year-old bristlecone pine tree against the Milky Way. Unbeknownst to the judges, the photo was actually just one frame of a time-lapse movie, which is featured in “TimeScapes”, the movie.
During production, two trailers were released, which went on to gather over 3 million views.