

Today’s guest blogger, REI employee Ching Fu, recounts the soaring highs and chilly lows of her bike tour of the entire Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway last summer: It had been raining for 3 days straight, and I was ready to just be home. But I had to keep pedaling. The bitter cold rain was an unwelcome surprise, especially since it was July in the southeast... ...
Thinking about the year that was, we present a rewind of some of the best outdoor-oriented videos (in no particular order) we ogled in 2011. For optimal bedazzlement, we suggest viewing in full screen and HD; maybe even cue them up on the flat screen. All promotional videos (this one for tourism in Finland) should be this good: A timelapse view of the Canary Islands, with some amazing cloud sequences, by photographer/videographer Daniel Lopez of Spain: This was a huge internet hit when it ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on December 28, 2011 1:47 PM & Tagged El Teide, Yosemite, timelapse and video | permalink | Comments
Behold, another feast for the senses, this one courtesy of Tom Lowe, a photographer and filmmaker named 2010 Astronomy Photographer of the Year by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in England. (Yep, it's that Greenwich. The observatory, south of London, is the home of Greenwich Mean Time and world's Prime Meridian,) The video below is an outtake from what will be Lowe's first film, Timescapes, described as a portrait of the American Southwest. A mix of urban and natural imagery, it's Lowe's eye ...
Posted by T.D. Wood on December 7, 2011 4:34 PM & Tagged Tom Lowe, timelapse and video | permalink | Comments
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