by dancing mists
My son-in-law took pity on me for the loss of my photos, which I had written about in my previous post, so he generously offered to share this beautiful moody time-lapse video he made of the shifting mists over the lake last November. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Thanks, Jonathan!
P.S. View the video fullscreen by pressing the button with 4 arrows on the right side of video player. Then press Esc on your keyboard to exit fullscreen mode.
January 15, 2015 in Canada and BC, Films, Nature by Marja-Leena
Marja-Leena: I’m just curious. What’s the longer object on the opposite shore of the lake (or is it a river?) in that video? You were there, right? And the idea was to get pic’s of the fog, which was in this time-lapse video, which was truly a fine thing.
I first thought it might’ve been a moose, but then it was too much on almost the same spot to be an animal swimming. Then I thought it was maybe a run-away dock, but then there should’ve been some wooden “road” leading to it. Maybe it was a turf float. I’ve some time seen them, almost a size of a small island, on a lake which is separated only by a narrow isthmus from a bigger swamp.
A very beautiful place that is. And I remember the children taking care of the chickens on the shore.
Sorry about the loss of the camera. My little pocket camera also got broken in Helsinki. It was an accident, I fell on a wind tunnel totally unexpectedly. Only afterwards someone told me that yes, sorry, I forgot to tell you. I fell on my rug sack and the corner of the camera hit the asphalt.
I don’t like at all the way the economics have turned. It would be more expensive to repair the camera than buy a new one. In the meanwhile: what happens to electronic trash?
Ripsa, there are some cottages on the other side of this very small lake but you can’t see them here. There is a small floating dock for swimmers out there above the whiter spot. I wish I could have put up a much larger version of Jonathan’s video so you could see all this a little better for it is indeed a beautiful place.** Jonathan took this from their home on the lake, which of course I’ve been to many times including just recently. I wasn’t there when he took the video though.
Oh, I didn’t lose the camera, just the photos which I accidentally deleted. I do know what you mean by the cost of repairs being so high that replacements can be cheaper – a real problem with all that trash as you say. We are required by law to take them to special depots for dismantling of the different parts for recycling, with too much of that going back to Asia where it all came from.
Speaking of which, in the previous post’s comments I had mentioned that my computer was getting too full and had some issues such as with the photos. Husband bought a new very large hard drive at a reasonable price to replace the original in my computer and it all now runs like new, for a 7 or 8 year old! No buying another computer and no waste for he’ll use the old hard drive somewhere else. I’m lucky that he’s so good with the technology, and patient too for it took him many hours to open the back of this machine. My older one was far quicker and easier when he did something similar some years ago.
** Since writing this comment, Jonathan told me about how to view this larger, as I’ve noted above. It is worth doing so!
Marja-Leena, that’s how I watched the video! My net-computer is a small lap top, so screen is just that small. But the main question was, that our docks are not that big and floating some ways from the shore. It’s better to fasten docks here into the shore, other way the ice would cut them off and break them.
So: every Fall in our summer cabins we have to haul all the possible things from near the shore, so that they don’t take a swim to the other end of the lake. That once happened to our dock. It was a work to get it back on to our shore. Rowing and yelling and swearing! Whole village knew and we were very much ashamed.
Now I’m off for my water gym!
Ripsa, I’m glad you saw the video larger. I remember how it was with frozen lakes and rivers and having to pull up docks before the freeze up – in Manitoba where I grew up! That is very rare here in southwest British Columbia. As far as I know, this little lake has only had a very thin skin of ice, not even strong enough for skating on in the couple of winters my family has lived there.
So beautifully calming – and it’s fascinating how the water moves so much in the middle, but the nearby leaves hardly move at all in comparison. Mesmerising, thank you – and your son in law.
I’m pleased you like this as much as I do. What may be very slow movement such as a slight ripple on the surface of the lake becomes faster as do light and darkness and time.
Looks like ghosts dancing on the water.
Yes, it does!
Quite hypnotic! I’m glad night fell at the end.
It sure is, and yes, how appropriate to finish with nightfall.
It’s a very restful scene and a very beautiful place. I was actually hoping to see the sun rise – but then I always hope for that.
In case Ripsa comes back I thought I’d mention that when my husband’s computer failed recently he removed the hard drive and then we took the machine to an electronics recycling center. They say they can salvage 90% of the material.
Susan, we all hope for sun but, well, it was November…
Yes, the electronics recycling program is good. Did they say where the salvaged materials go?
Marja-Leena, Susancrow: yes, actually we live ,maybe 200 meters away from the recycling plant, the place which has small workshops to repair for instance old computers and resell them (you can install Linux into them, and Linux is originally a Finnish disk operating system created by Linus Thorvalds, who of course decided to move to Beaverton, Portland), and all other kinds of small co-ops, coffeeshop and stuff like that.
And something magic happened to my poor camera. I gave it to my friend who looked for the possibility that the memory card had gotten broke. Her son-in-law accidentally repaired it: he took and formatted the memory card. Now it works!
Good job, Finns! I know some of that work goes on here too. We’ve donated old stuff for repairs that are then given to low-income folks. But I’ve heard whatever is not used here is shipped to Asia.
My husband re-formatted my camera card too and said that it should be done regularly. I trust him to look after all my equipment 🙂 He’s been doing a lot of that kind of maintenance and reparis lately also for one daughter’s iPhone so his title is Mr Fred Fixit!