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Stunning vistas, above and below

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Yosemite Range of Light from Shawn Reeder on Vimeo.

I am a destination visual artist who specializes in photography, timelapse cinematography, & filmmaking. I love to travel, so if you have a project in some far flung location, lets talk.

Yosemite National Park, the High Sierra, and the Eastern Sierra are some of the most beautiful places on earth. Ever since I serendipitously won a trip to Yosemite when I was 18, the beautiful Range of Light has captured my heart and become my home. Nothing brings me more joy than to share this life changing beauty with others.

Ever since I became fascinated with timelapse photography almost 2 years ago, after seeing the work of Tom Lowe, I’ve wanted to do a piece on Yosemite and the Sierra. Now after almost 2 years of shooting, I’m thrilled to share. I hope you enjoy my vision of my home, the majestic Yosemite & Sierra. Best viewed Full Screen with Sound :)

If you would like to license any of my clips or hire me to shoot for you, please be in touch.

Web: http://shawnreeder.com

Email: shawn@shawnreeder.com

Facebook: facebook.com/shawnreeder

Twitter: twitter.com/shawnreeder

Music licensed and used with permission by: www.shaunpaul.com

Composition used: Sounds of Peace

Huge thanks to Kessler Crane and Lens Pro To Go. Without their help this piece would not have been nearly as good.

http://kesslercrane.com

http://lensprotogo.com

Also a huge thanks to all of you who help support me with your warm comments and continuing encouragement. It means more to me than you know.

I hope this inspires everyone to get outside and explore the beautiful outdoors, especially magical places like Yosemite National Park and the High Sierra. It’s National Parks week and all of our national parks are free this week, so get outside and explore!

*So it seems like a lot of people are asking what gear I used. I’m not going to detail every little thing, but here’s the core of what I used: (Shot at 5k in Canon RAW)

Canon 5D Mark II

Canon 5D Mark III

Canon 14L II & 16-35L II (rented from LensProToGo)

Canon 17-40L, 24-105L, 50L, 70-200L IS

KesslerCrane 5 foot Cineslider, Revolution Head, Oracle’s & Basic controller, Elektra Motors, AT Outrigger Feet

Lenin in space

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I don’t know what the revenues were, but the auction sure had some interesting topics. And it’s “Soviet”, not “Russian”.

Science and communism are inseparable! That is the basic message of this amazing collection of Soviet space propaganda posters that will be auctioned off on Apr. 22.

Featuring Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, the first and second humans to reach space, along with Krushchev, and of course Lenin, these posters glorify the the Soviet Union’s technological prowess and importance in the world, and in the universe. Many of the posters focus on the role the workers played in the space race, and the ordinary citizen’s duty to feel immensely proud of Mother Russia’s accomplishments. … (Wired)

A monastic backyard astronomer

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The Benedictine abbey of Münsterschwarzach in Germany is well known for Anselm Grün, who writes books about spirituality and its interaction with daily life, from simple prayer to management and company life. The abbey is located at the banks of the river Main in Bavaria, and goes back well to the late 9th century.


To my surprise the abbey also has a small observatory in which the prior (say: vice-president :) ) of the abbey, Christoph Gerhard, makes observations and takes pictures of the universe, especially deep space objects and the Messier catalog. His pages are in German, but the pictures speak for themselves.

This is a picture made by Christoph of a supernova in M95 discovered a few days ago (March 16). © P. Christoph Gerhard OSB

It seems he uses a Celestron telescope and a Moravian G2-8300 CCD camera. Compliments for his work and the beautiful pictures.