Time Lapse: The Storm - Perfect sunset thunderstorm over EL Paso

Infinite Change. Time lapse of a perfect, gigantic thunderstorm, from about 6 hours before sunset through moonrise. I've watched many storms over the last 20 years from my backyard, but this one was the best. I was able to capture the complete evolution of the cell from initial formation through anvil and collapse. Music: "Children of the Amazon", from the Bamboo Album, Craig Russell.
http://www.amazon.com/Craig-Russell/e/B000APMMGA/ref=ac_dpt_sa_nc_link

I love time-lapse, particularly of clouds. I'm always interested in links to crisp cloud time-lapse, particularly if they are set to haunting music with some timed transitions.

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[ryn0518]

Lived in El paso all my life, we have sum of the best desert sunsets and storms =) cheerz to this great vid !!!

[stevecrye]

@ryn0518 Thanks, hoping for more storms this year. BTW there is a short section of my San Juan time lapse where I cheated and stuck in some El Paso clouds - see if you can spot it.

[Landotter1]

Stunning... Great job!!!

[stevecrye]

@Landotter1 Thanks, I really appreciate the kind words and your taking the time to watch and comment. If you liked this one, please check out my "Fantasia on a (time-lapse) Theme of Thomas Tallis - that one was my summer project. And, I'm working on more, trying to improve.

[networkplummer]

Very nicely done! Were there multiple views of the same occurrences? Would be interested in camera/techniques you used. That was neat in that you had storm and sunset colors happening at same time. (I currently use a digital camera with a CHDK intervalometer and sew the resulting jpegs into videos.)

Thanks

[stevecrye]

@networkplummer HI, Thanks for the comment. I have only one cam, so was not able to capture multiple views. For info on the techniques (which are evolving with every new vid), have a look at these vids on my channel: "Sony Vegas Tutorial: Time-Lapse clouds + slow motion lightning, compositing, overlays, Huffy, VeeDub " , and also read the "info" in this vid: :Time Lapse: Durango CO to Silver City NM in 1800 mph Toyota Corolla " . I've been looking at intervalometers and want to try that.

[Landotter1]

@stevecrye You're welcome and THANK YOU!!! Will-do bro... please keep 'em comin' :-D Wish I had the gear and smarts to do this.... I LOVE watching the weather and nature!!!

[stevecrye]

@gocountry1391 Lo siento... Although during thunderstorm season the brilliant flashes of lightning followed by the deafening claps of thunder wake me up, here in El Paso the storms rarely cause damage except for hail. Hail scares me, but not the thunder and lightning. In the desert, one learns to love t-storms - they bring life-giving rain.

[gocountry1391]

thunderstorm really bad for me while disturbance sleep

[stevecrye]

@squeakyleak Had to wait all the way to the end. Not much - I was dissapointed. Also the TL made it too dim.