It’s quite an isolated life up here but there are many compensations.\u00a0 One is that I spend most of my days working at the kitchen table in the dining room\/kitchen of our apartment here.\u00a0 I’ve moved the table to the window which looks out almost due north (1\u00b0, i.e. just E of N according to my ‘phone but I don’t trust it!) That means I look up the valley down below that joins Aime la Plagne to Bourg Saint Maurice and to Mont Blanc towering over everything.\u00a0 The view is sensational and always changing.\u00a0 At times there is no view as cloud can descend and wrap the place in white out, at other times Mont Blanc is crystal clear (I must find out how far away it is).<\/p>\n
Soon after I first came up here I got into the rhythm of taking a ‘photo using my UK ‘phone pretty much on the hour every hour I was here, using a fixed point on the window to hold the view steady.\u00a0 One day I will stitch them into some hugely accelerated time lapse film.\u00a0 However, a few days ago I had one of those whims to which I’m prone:<\/p>\n
“What if I used one of the android timelapse apps with my old ‘phone to grab something smoother?”<\/p>\n
Well, of course it’s taken a bit of fiddling around and experimenting but I like the results I’m getting now.\u00a0 So here is the first usable clip.\u00a0 From Wednesday last week (31st of October, 2018).\u00a0 Courtesy of a battered Sony Xperia ‘phone and FrameLapse Pro<\/a> from Neximo labs<\/a> and served by vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n