Nature Clips 2

Sunrises and setting suns – floating clouds

and shifting shadows -

Nature on the Move.

Christ and Crosses
This video was shot on Sydney's Waverley cemetery. The sun rising behind the stark religious symbols and Gabrieli's music create a strong devotional atmosphere.

Giant Sun
Every second, the Sun converts 657 million tons of hydrogen into helium.
That powerhouse makes wind and weather on Earth and lets life live on it.
It took the light 8 minutes to travel the 150 million kilometres (93 206 000 miles) to our 1000mm lens. The red is due to air saturated by smoke particles during Australian bush fires. They filtered out the short waves of the spectrum, the blues and let through only the long reds.

I love my Office
We hear the dreaded sound of an alarm clock - and are evicted to 8 hours in the office. These ones are in Sydney's CBD, the sun climbing and looking in.

Wet Traffic
Darling Harbour is an arm of Sydney Harbour. Heavy traffic and the reflections of a setting sun. The cacophony of motors ends with Bach's famous Toccata & Fugue while the sun disappears into the quiet dark.

Australia's Gorges of the Macdonnells
The Macdonnell Ranges belong to the very old landscapes on Earth. Cut up by gorges and without dense vegetation cover the bare rocks show the architecture of oldness. Rubble of millions of years is lying about, of a billion years. Age has added a spiritual dimension to the Macdonnells, intangible, profound. Touch a rock - it feels like holding part of the original package.

Lak Mulwala
Australia's Lake Mulwala. Early morning the clouds turned red announcing the sun. But then they turned dark again: false dawn. Finally there she was, climbing upwards to Bach's glorious music. And Earth turned another day happy and bursting with joy.

 

Lake Windamere
At one end there is a dam wall; at the other end the sun is rising. There are the trees, like hurdles in her way. The sound track gets in sync with the - like a little cosmic musical. And with sincere apologies for having butchered Schubert's beautiful quintet.

Australia's Stony Desert
The explorer Charles Sturt in 1845 in the very centre of gloomy barrenness “…the most cheerless and the most forbidding of any landscapes our eyes had wandered over..’ With nothing to distract - your thoughts turn inward. The mindscapes of Australia.