The Mountain By Terje Sorgjerd
Brilliant photographer Terje Sorgjerd has released perhaps one of the most visually moving time-lapses ever published on the Urban Times. And as you can confirm here – we’ve seen a few.
Sorgjerd filmed over a week in April during a hiking visit to Spain’s highest mountain (3715m), El Teide, Tenerife; also the location of one of the world’s most prominent observatories, Teide Observatories. Naturally, from such a location, there was going to be some phenomenal footage. The Goal? To capture the Milky Way Galaxy as backdrop to the mountain itself. The idea is rather wonderful. The mountain locations anchored in stasis while the star-scape shifts and dances overhead.The trek was exhasuting for him:
There was a lot of hiking at high altitudes and probably less than 10 hours of sleep in total for the whole week. Having been here 10-11 times before I had a long list of must-see locations I wanted to capture for this movie, but I am still not 100% used to carrying around so much gear required for time-lapse movies.
He has constructed several moving shots, which can take hours or days to perfect and requires a heavy motion-control system. And then, on the 9th of April Sorgjerd was dismayed. A great sandstorm hit the Sahara and at three in the morning it hit Sorgjerd himself, blinding him to the night sky. He expected his 5 hour sequence of our galaxy to be all but ruined, but this wasn’t the case:
To my surprise, my camera had managed to capture the sandstorm which was backlit by Grand Canary Island making it look like golden clouds. The Milky Way was shining through the clouds, making the stars sparkle in an interesting way. So if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32.
My personal favourite moment: the oceanic clouds bobbing and weaving across the horizon at 00:52…
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