Timelapse - March 2010 Blizzard - Denver, Colorado

A timelapse video shot from my back porch as the March 23rd snowstorm rolled through Colorado.

Information about the video:

* The temperature started out somewhere around 60, and ended close to 20.
* All those critters on the opposite side of my yard fence are prairie-dogs, and they are little bastards who love digging under the fence into my garden. I only mention this because I recently discovered that even people living in states right next to mine have never heard of these creatures before, and out here they are as common as rabbits.
* The hailstorm that rolls across the park produced shooter-marble-sized hail.
* After the hailstorm, we got about two hours worth of freezing rain.
* You can see reflections of the clouds moving across the sky in the puddles on my porch.
* My squirrel buddy hangs out in the tree on the left side of the screen from :05 to :10, and on the tree branch on the right side of the screen around :35.
* The gold-and-black blob on the left of the screen around 1:42 is me, out back knocking snow off of the stupid satellite dish. Watch how quickly my footprints fill up with snow.
* That flickering light in the lower right side of the screen is from when someone goes into the kitchen and turns on the light for a few moments
* I have no idea what that bright light is around 4:14, but it only showed up for 1 frame the entire night. Someone's motion detector going off as they were leaving for work perhaps?
* Sunrise is around 4:20 in the video (cheers, Ents!). Damn, it gets blue!
* I put the start of the video at the very end so you can see just how much snow fell; it's kind of a shock when you see it that immediately, instead of accumulating over a 5 minute period.

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Some technical information about the video:

* Shot using a Sony A100K Alpha DSLR with an 18 - 55mm stock "beercan" lens and an Aperture remote timer.
* 1 frame shot every 15 seconds/ 4FPM
* Started shooting around 2:30PM on Tuesday, and finished shooting around 8 or 9AM on Wednesday. 18 hours, approx.
* Changed batteries 4 times.
* Song is by Emancipator, the track is called "First Snow" and it's off the album "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough."
* Stitched together at various frame rates; daytime scenes were between 3fps - 12fps, and nighttime scenes were all the way up to 30fps.
* Video edited using QuickTimePro, audio edited using Audacity.

Copyright 2010 Seetwist Productions, Inc.

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[TayRs4]

Awesome video.. Whats the song name?

[Seetwist]

@TayRs4 Song is by Emancipator, the track is called "First Snow" and it's off the album "Soon It Will Be Cold Enough."

[gagoono]

0:06 is that a squirrel?

[Seetwist]

Yep!  He pops up on the right side of the screen on the tree branch at around the 0:33 - 0:36 mark as well.

[GraffLife25]

Amazing video my friend!! So cool to see "lovely" (we all know how unpredictable it is) Colorado weather timelapsed!!

[Seetwist]

Cheers!

[designestore]

@Seetwist nice video and song ;)



[Acyberspook]

Ok,.... Looks like it didn't get any lower than 40-42 F,.... pretty warm,but nice sequence,.. thanks.

[dougtrav1]

weird how there's no snow before

[CinemiexProductions]

lol, I went outside when we had that huge blizzard in KS, low visibility, strong winds, nd I went out in snow camouflage, and ran around the neighborhood wit meh airsoft guns lol

[MuleXC09]

Awesome video! I did one of these too, but not nearly as well. Well done. :)

[Balyma]

what is the title of this music?

Great video, man;)

[awesomo1342]

next time you film a blizzard make it so you can see the thermometer, awesome video tho

[MrJoshua0621]

whats up with temp gage? it stays the same temp!!!