Growing Tree. 5 year timelapse from my backyard.

[yettobeeighteen]

I wish it were higher quality =')

[stasisnu18]

thats so funny lol your cute dogs :-D hey so in just 5 years that tree grew like that? wow! nice!

[semajoja]

4 people are idiots not to think this is cool.

[apthetique]

This is really cool. I just recently had the idea of trying something like a 150+ timelapse of a tree growing. Thought about applying for grants and stuff, public art installation kind of thing. I just logged on to see who had done it already. It’s really awesome what you did, but it would be rad to use some more advanced camera technology and perhaps multiple angles. The symbolic implications are pretty big too if you think about all life whizzing by while this lone tree grows. Good job : )

[nm71O]

That is beautiful

[BraDRoBBo]

Love it thanks.

[97nachotv]

Wow, it didn't snow once.

[jollystar5]

How did you overlap the images?

[Sebizzar]

This is so amazing i wana kiss you! LoL

[TheAileZX2]

I found myself saying "Dog. Dog dog dog. Dog. Dog." For everytime I saw the dog. x3

[Ktonrider]

You can also see the growth on the trees behind your house too! I love videos like these!

[Ktonrider]

very cool! What kind of tree is it?

[RoboticPurple]

you can see the spot were the dog likes to sit making the grass die

[BlackForgeChaos]

5 years for a minute of beauty.

[TheForceFollower94]

What type of tree was it? Red maple? What state was the video filmed in?

[allen22390]

I have to say, that was kinda cool!!

[ionixxxxxx]

I'm from Canada and I find it hilarious that the leaves die with no snow!

That is one girly tree!

[DynamiteDerek]

@ionixxxxxx You fucking moron! The leaves "die" as a defense mechanism. if the leaves didn't "die" when it was freezing outside, it would kill the whole tree.

[vantangler]

@DynamiteDerek boom goes the dynamite.it is a girly tree

[mryjn420090]

your dog got older too

[ec123456789able]

wow, this is really awesome :) i have got to do something like this.

[TheLinuxBust]

I noticed your roof was cleaned a 0:28

[TimoBadwolf]

as boring as watching a tree grow LOL

[SeventhRisk]

Impressive. Thumbs up for dedication.

[ElGatoLoco698]

That's impressive.

[jccsniper]

wow not one time it snow or rain must suck

[kittbo]

Nice. That sure takes some commitment.

[cptstubing]

You have really short winters, or you just didn't take photos of the tree during this stage. The dog is funny, following you out when you take photos hahah

[buddyisreal23]

There's a dirt spot where that dog kept laying

[J4C0853N]

thats very nice

[Maryammmm]

Spectacular. Well done!

[MannyO1995]

my cannabis grew just like that

[myhugeass]

I started crying at 0:20... Poor tree...

[Phordeable]

Nice re-shingling at 0:29 ...

[demiselenagomezfan]

Your dogs are like popping up magically

[jokeslayer999999]

They grow up so fast..... Sniff....

[Alek247]

Damn that dog loves chillin in that backyard

[mahela1993]

Nice work.

[icyxpker880]

de dog chanche tooo

[PcGamerPaul]

Teleporting dogs

[jamPrinny11]

lol the dog XD

[pdutube]

Wow that dog just aged 35 people years! Awesome video! Keep going! There should be a national project to document something growing daily for eternity.

[drew1ooo]

i loved how randomly the lawn mower appeared

[sproutingman]

we were watching the dogs not the tree!

[SpeedingThruTime]

Your dog is Jumper! :P

[sejlefrew]

Nice!

[Antiwhateverur]

VERY COOL!!!! Also another cool part of the video is how Sarah lays in almost the exact same spot multiple times in the video lol. Dont fuck with her spot now!

[theknowbody]

That is an awesome video! Thanks for making and sharing.

[kikivolauvent1]

interesting and slightly dizzy.... you've got some very nervous dogs... :))))))

on a more serious note; it's quite amazing to see how fast those trees grow; I have a large garden and sometimes I think it grows overnight just to make me sit up and wonder how that is possible... Thank you!

[SteveSabbai]

...yor dog likes to upstage the tree! LOL

[MistaPimpa]

Where's the snow?

[border3431]

Hey great effort. I have trouble finding the paitence to do a several hour timelapse let alone a several year timelapse. Excellent work and keep at it. :)

[jwerni2]

did the dog die ; (

[Lapeere]

No, Sara is still around.  She recently lost an eye, but she still lies around. I remarried and now have two other dogs that will probably appear in future videos.

[biggestFFXIfan]

@Lapeere funny, that's my ex gf's name.

Connection?

[Lapeere]

Don't know your ex gf. On this side of the family, only sons, no daughters.

[biggestFFXIfan]

@Lapeere i was talking about the dog ;)

[63lee63]

Bravo! Much fun to watch!

[kdawson2010]

Wow this is cool. Thanks for sharing!

[crazyflaps169]

wow five years is a long time im surprised someone didnt steal the camera

[CEfilms]

5 year time lapse of tree AND dog.

[Tommyleini]

@CEfilms HELL YES XD

[Thedevontree]

I like u

[feliperavazzi]

omg a five years time lapse, My Cam wouldt have survived that much x)

[superbluepop1]

Cute dogs

[MISSsazable]

lol at the random dog popping up at random intervals.

[MrSteveUtah]

Only a dog and a cat live at this house

[princette]

Your climate there is a lot like ours in Auckland New Zealand, Oceanic Temparate mostly. The only you cn tell winter from summer is the longer shadows and bare deciduous trees. Otherwise grass and weeds still grow in the winter too (Just slower than summer)

[MrSteveUtah]

@princette Fuck New Zealand,,it is a shitwhole fill of morons

[thereturnofgoldberg]

I'm thinkin that tree is fake...not once did any of thoses dogs cock their leg on it...lol cool vid

[Tarabos1]

Beautiful. Thank you for the effort to do this.Since I know the movie The Timemachine (George Pal version from1960) my greatest desire is to travel through time to observe the changes around me in a time lapse vision.That unfortunately will ever be a dream, but we have those videos at least !

[gingerbreaddynamite]

Brilliant man, There isn't much of this sort of thing around..

very good vid

[FluffyMcdonald6]

lol u got a new black dog

[PikminInvader]

so u left a camra outside for 3 years?

[Lapeere]

Actually, I have about 15 different locations where I take the pictures. I then set them up in Photoshop and make the movie.

[fennecfanatic]

@PikminInvader Also, it was five years. Did you even read the video title?

[Luka1180]

@PikminInvader Yeah he just did like 1 each day right? or soemthing like it?

[nickmeecham]

you people have no life if your watching a tree grow haha

[skippydeenice]

@nickmeecham trees are amazing. I like plants more than most people, too many of them are like you

[kazemrocks]

omg how is the camera there for 5 years wouldnt it fall or the dog does something to it dude seriously 5 years!!! if i put a camera there ill be so excited when will it finish and maybe like 1 month ill remove it

[im2sexy4mykat]

Muy Bonito! I have a lemon tree thats about the same size your tree was 5 years ago

! I cant wait to see it mature like yours did! EXCELLENT JOB!

[MrPaulVanRavenswaay]

i agree w/ all the good comments!

THANKS!!!!!

[PBJwithTat]

Never realized that trees has to discard of their younger branches in order to grow larger.

[zezimmaa]

hey i noticed you had 1 dog at the beggining but twards the end you had another did you adopt it during the years?

[Lapeere]

The dog(s) are a continuing saga in life around here. Sara, the brown dog is the only consistent element in the video. Lilly, the black dog, came to us after my sister-in-law died. Lilly died earlier this year due to cancer. Pretty quick, after I get remarried, I will be getting 2 more dogs. So, updated videos will have more canine to help me mark the timeframe of the videos.

[VantekHG]

expert posing by the dog

[JAMxSkalla16]

i was waiting for it to be winter.. but apparently where you live they decide to skip it. i should mention that to the town i live in.....

[quercetum153]

Wow. I like observing how the tree loses the lower limbs and grows a thicker trunk each season. I didn't read all the comments but is it a maple?

[Lapeere]

No clue what type of tree it is. I think it could be a maple. We trimmed the branches to shape the tree, and make it easier to mow the lawn, that's why the lower branches disappeared.

[SantaFishes101]

LOL Did the dog die in the making of this? XD

[mikemullany]

dog dog dog nodog nodog dog dog dogdogdog NEWDOG! daog and black dog dog and black dog...etc.

[tommymiller66]

you must be an arborist, like myself...to appreciate the beauty of this.

[Lapeere]

I do not consider myself an arborist as much as I consider myself a historian. I try to capture the steady flow of events that effected my life. When my in-laws lived in the house pictured, they had a passion for the yard. In later pictures after my divorce, not in the video, the yard doesn't look so good. The tree still grows, but so does the grass.

This video captures the struggle my in-laws had keeping the lawn healthy when we had a dog that loved to lay in the same place all the time.

[defreke]

I wanna go and chop that tree down

[natureperson420]

cool dogs

[DeeVeext]

Very decent time lapse. It's nice to see some of the things we never see normally such as trees growing.

On a side note - that dog must spend a lot of time in the garden haha. Did you manually take the images, or did you use a timed camera of some sort.

[Lapeere]

I manually take the pictures once a week and put them together with photoshop. I try to take the pictures at the same time of the day so I can catch the solar movements of the seasons.

[acoti]

Amazing video! Thanks for the upload.

[FoxWBogart]

You got guts, yeahh, too much visual power in this vid I think.

That dog wants a movie now XD

[Serpo71]

......and the dog didnt age a day, amazing!

SERPO

[bartman1337]

the dog was way more interesting

[misheruhime]

very cool. :)

[M4renz]

Did you cut the branches at 0:20 or did the tree throw them off?

I tree to find out how exactly the branches start at certain heights at most trees.

--Marenz

[spritegoose24]

ok play it again only this time sing the king of the hill song

[Wishworks]

that's amazing how come autumn it stops growing, then when spring comes it shoots up

[masterxilo]

Pretty cool. The biggest change is when you cut away the lower branches at 0:20 (before year 2). I hope you keep doing this.

[deathofamailman]

Love the video -- and the dogs!

[BITARTEN2]

Nice video. I think I saw a UFO. Joke

[TheSubtleNinja]

lol nice dogs

[GanEdenAustralia]

Is this done by taking random shots throughout the year and then adding all together in an editor? How do you keeo the position to perfect?

[Lapeere]

I have about 20 different locations around the yard, (and one inside the house) that I set my camera on. I try to take at least one picture a week, more during springtime and fall, at the 12:00 noon in non-daylight savings days, and 1:00pm on DSDs. That way I hope to catch the equinox shadows. I use the layering technique in Photoshop to line up the photos and use an old Olympus Movie making program to create the video.

[GanEdenAustralia]

@Lapeere Very interesting. So in this instance with the tree video, you marked a spot in the front garden where to place the camera each time?

[Lapeere]

Actually, I wedge my camera against a screw and a lip on my air-conditioner. So, as long as I keep the same airconditioner and camera, Olympus 3030, I should be able to keep this up indefinitely.

[natureperson420]

@Lapeere what kind of ac lol nice clips btw

[camptrav]

sweetgum?

[Lapeere]

@camptrav

I have no clue what kind of tree it is. My father-in-law planted it in 2001 and I decided to document it's growth. Now, almost 10 years later, I'm sorry I didn't point the camera up higher.

[jerrydff7]

wow!!!

[brookesheridan]

WOW awesome time lapse :)

[Agemoz]

Oh and did you prune the tree?

[Agemoz]

This is the best time-lapse video of a trees life on Youtube. I really want to see a time-lapse of the growth of a tree from sprout to 20 years but i doubt that will ever happen. Thank you for your video and patients.

[Lapeere]

So far, I have about 10 years of photos accumulated to make into movies. It's a long process to allign the pictures and make a movie, so it may be a while before I can start posting my other pictures. I know there has to be better ways to allign photos other than Photoshop, and if anyone could tell me, I would appreciate it.

[nandoanalog]

it´s fake. cause the dog doesnt change. :D jk

[davidreynolds87]

Nicely done!

[sqhschief]

awesome

[coIby151]

does anyone know where i could get the Skullcandy Lowrider DJ Style Headphone for 20$ or under?-thanks:)

[princette]

great climate like ours, no snow in the winter, mix of decidous and subtropical evergreens. Whereabouts are you in the states, my friend and I are having a debate, I say West Coast, he says South eatern USA

[Lapeere]

You win the debate. I live in Sonoma County, 50 miles north of San Francisco.

[JulianEats]

AMAziNG

[4SCARECROWS]

Excellent!!!...I commented for years that I would like to see someone do a timelapse of a tree for at least 5 maybe 10 years. Your patience and dedication is very noble and impressive. I wish I could do the same...in fact I hope I can do the same kind of project with a tree some day. Excellent video..5 stars and favorited!!

[skibee50]

@4SCARECROWS How is your time lapse project coming along ?

[4SCARECROWS]

@skibee50 tTechnical Technical difficulties. The tree died...By I shall persevere and I will try again.

[inytay1]

great vidio evan on a time lapse it is hard to see it growing

[Lapeere]

"photographic obsession".... I like that. That's an incredibly accurate description. The dog, Sara, always seems to know when I am taking my pictures and runs out to lay on the lawn.

For a while, that bothered me, then I thought, she is just as much a part of change as the tree growing. So, I stopped chasing her away.

Thanks for looking, thanks for commenting.

LL

[sonicbiology]

I love your dog in all his various attitudes towards your photographic obsession.

[JackRussellTerrier2]

It's about time somebody did this! Is it an ongoing project? The background tree on the right must've gotten killed back in an ice storm, or it was just cut back quite a bit.