Looking out my window one morning, I noticed these clouds. In particular, their movement was barely perceptible. So I decided it was time to try out my new digital camera. I set up my tripod, opened the window, took a meter reading, and set all the camera settings to manual. I then captured 38 frames, one every 15 seconds, for approximately 10 minutes. The camera came with software to create animations, which I have yet to try, but I just used ImageMagick’s convert(1) utility to piece the files into an animated gif. Click on the thumbnail on the left to see the animation (3.26 MB download).
I think the effect is very cool. I put a 0.15 second delay between each frame in the animation, so the animated motion is 100 times as fast as the real motion. This was the first time I’ve ever tried time-lapse photography. I will definitely try this again!