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This is my latest project. Timelapse short film which captures beauty of nature and landscape of Beskydy mountains in Czech Republic. These are some best shots of 2020.
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The Cajon Pass - the narrow valleys that connect the Los Angeles Basin to the Mojave Desert, in-between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains. The jog in the road is literally the San Andreas fault.
Back in the early Cambrian some 500 million years ago, the continental dance had an active phase that resulted in the assembling of many of the plate fragments that form the bedrock beneath the European continent. Chunks of rock that were joined then that have stayed together through the vagaries of supercontinental gathering (the formation of Pangaea, completed some 300 million years back) and dispersal. There were two main landmasses in those days, known as Gondwana and Laurentia (for a piece on the formation of Gondwana see http://on.fb.me/1D548m8).
“Our journey through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was planned and executed entirely on our own. That was until our vehicle broke down in Osh. These two countries seriously blew us away, and we highly recommend you get there yourself. If you have any questions related to the film, gear, or travel, please don’t hesitate to reach out in the comments below. Much Love, Matt.”
Our galactic neighbour, rising over the Italian Alps
The Andromeda galaxy is speeding towards ours at a large rate of knots, and in some 4 billion years the two galaxies will collide in a slow motion minuet that will ignite a huge burst of star formation in both island universes. At the moment it is still some 2.5 million light years away, but it is so bright it is visible to the naked eye as a light smudge if you know where to look and have a reasonably dark sky (in fact its visibility or lack thereof is a good test of what astronomers call ‘seeing’).
“2020, in one way or another, has changed the course of our paths, and got us lockdown in concrete jungles, as in our case, during months, the outdoors were forbidden, in the distance and dreams I looked back at images and videos from the last trip we were able to make.
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