As the year comes to the end, it was time to shoot the last sunset of the year 2025.
I set this up in near by swimming place at Köyliönjärvi and I set the timer to 6 seconds interval. About 1,5 hours before sunset. It had been quite warm December month, but at the end of the month, weather turned to cold and year 2026 started with pretty damn cold weather.
As you can see the ice sheet is pretty clear from the snow and it was thick.
We just had the grayest day of the year a few days ago, which is kind of nowadays used by the Hartwall beverage company to market their brand of Long drink, because the drink is also gray.
It has been gray overcast for quite a few days, weeks one can perhaps say, but finally there was a bit of clear sky and I set my camera to capture this eventful cloudscape timelapse.
I noticed that there might be some raining and or snowing and set up my camera under a tree to catch most of the rain and or snow.
I was kind of lucky to catch this much action on a single timelapse. I asked AI to analyze what kind of clouds are in this video and this was the response:
Quick Answer: The video you shared shows mostly stratus and stratocumulus clouds, with occasional breaks revealing patches of cumulus clouds. These are typical of an overcast sky that begins to clear, which matches the description in the video’s notes.
🌥 Cloud Types in the Video
Stratus clouds
Low, uniform, gray layers covering the sky.
Often associated with overcast weather and can persist for days.
Seen in the video as the dominant gray blanket.
Stratocumulus clouds
Low-level clouds with a lumpy, rolling texture.
They appear when stratus clouds start breaking up, letting in bits of light.
Visible in the timelapse as the sky begins to clear.
Cumulus clouds
Fluffy, cotton-like clouds with distinct edges.
Form when sunlight warms the ground, causing rising air currents.
In the video, they appear briefly in the clearer patches of sky.
I don't really like the idea of AI, but there are some uses, where there aren't humans involved.
It has been quite great weather for shooting cloudscapes in this and past month. Although there has been wind and rain, and managed to shoot some new footage. My main problem seems to be procrastination.
This was quite good, there is sun rays in the sky, clouds, sunset and stars in the sky at the end.
One thing that bothers me a bit, is that I have set the timelapse interval in 6 second, and I shoot in A-mode, which keeps the aperture fixed and exposure time varies due lighting condition and when it gets really dark, exposure is ramped up in max, which is in this case 30 seconds. That means that the speed of the video will accelrate as you can see around 0:47 time mark.
Summer was quite sunny and in here where I live wasn't that much of cloudy days, but as the summer comes to end and rainy autumn weather is coming, clouds are getting mystic and volatile.
These were shot "on the fly" when I was walking my dog and when I got home and thought setting up camera for timelapses, these clouds were long gone.
The Pillars of Creation are a series of massive, dark columns of interstellar gas and dust located in the Eagle Nebula, approximately 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth. These pillars are a region where new stars are forming. The pillars are made visible by the ultraviolet light from nearby young stars, which causes the gas and dust to glow and also erodes the pillars.
Okay, it's not the Pillars of Creation, but when I looked in the sky and saw this cloudscape, it reminded me instantly of the Pillars of Creation. I mean look at it closely!
Also the cloudscape has been wonderful and I have been setting my camera gear and shoot some timelapses. Now I only need to post process them with LRTimelapse and Lightroom Classic.
The weather hasn't been good for being outside, except for a few sunny days this summer. Few days ago I set up my camera to catch a cloudscape pass by and while I am post processing 4000+ photos into a single video, I decided to post the newest video that I posted on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Cloudscapesphotography
Actually I just did rename it. I couldn't believe I didn't do that in the first place. Anyhow, here is the newest timelapse video:
There hasn't been really good weather for timelapse, or I have been too busy doing something else. But I managed to shoot this about a month ago. As the days are getting longer and longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the sun is settling in late at night, this was shot late in June evening around the time the sun is just about to settle in and night begins, which is quite bright...
I meant to shoot a timelapse on the summer solstice but the weather wasn't great, it wasn't raining as is usual traditional Finnish Midsummer festival weather. :D
