Vacation review

So on Saturday I built this year’s BIG castle. Unfortunately, because of the early hour of rising (first shovelfull fell before 6am), I was the primary digger*. BUT, I had the brilliant idea of creating a stand for my camera and then creating a stop motion animation with pictures taken every twenty minutes.

Check out the animation here!

You can see the castle slowly grow to it’s final height of over 5.5 feet, and then watch it get carved by many furious hands and destroyed by the vicious tide.

The first picture was taken at about 5:50 am. photos were taken every twenty minutes until water hit the castle. Then the photos were taken at 10 then 5 then 2.5 minute intervals. The camera shakes a little bit at the end because the water eroded my camera stand a bit. Despite this, I’m quite proud of the result.

Next year perhaps I’ll upgrade my technology and create an even better picture spread!

*Ryan Schenk, Nicholas, and Maggie helped too!

5 thoughts on “Vacation review

  • 8/14/2006 at 7:16 am
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    Just so you know. I didn’t once look at your sandcastle during that whole slideshow. I was mesmerized by that little boat. Poor Boat! he was stuck there on the sand…all he wanted to do was float. How must he have felt as the ocean went away? Was he crying inside because he was now useless? But perhaps the knowledge that the Tide would come back in later in the day cheered him up? Does a boat have a memory like a gold fish where every 7 seconds or so it forgets whats going on? Thats what I was looking at and thinking in your little slideshow.

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  • 8/14/2006 at 7:33 am
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    I like how you can see that line of clouds approach.

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  • 8/14/2006 at 9:23 am
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    I like how (apparently) Mike’s shadow goes from ENORMOUS to puny during the first few shots.

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  • 8/14/2006 at 9:55 am
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    He was sucking that small planet he calls a stomach in there Jocelyn.

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