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Posted on July 31, 2015
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Regent's Park Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Selection of timelapse video shot in London's beautiful Regents park with a motorized rail. Featuring the Avenue Gardens, the rose gardens and the boating lake.
The Regent's Park, designed by John Nash, covers 395 acres and includes Queen Mary's Gardens which features more than 12,000 roses of 400 varieties, as well as the gloriously restored William Andrews Nesfield's Avenue Gardens.
Music is 'lifeline' by Big Bud © Robin O'Reilly 2000, from the compilation album 'points in time' by LTJ Bukem.
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Hyde Park Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Timelapse sequences shot in London's Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens. It's the second outing with my motorised rail, still a few teething problems, but certainly an improvement on the first outing where I discarded about half of the shot footage during the editing process.
Featuring the Serpentine, Henry Moore's Arch and the Italian Garden.
The Arch is a six-metre high Roman travertine sculpture positioned on the north bank of the Long Water. It was presented by the artist Henry Moore to the nation for sitting in Kensington...
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Cotswold's Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Shot near Bibury, Gloucestershire on the edge of the cotswolds.
Hardly any light pollution, so the star visibility was great.
First shots with my new motorised dolly rail. There were a few teething problems, I had to disregard about a third of the footage.
Music is ‘the Lick’ by Earl Grey © 1995 Paul Frazer Clarke & Ron Wells. Out on Rugged Vinyl Records....
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Han & Jon's wedding - 21st September 2014 from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Congratulations Han & Jon! 4 minute edit, best viewed in HD in Vimeo via the link above.
Shot on 5d Mark III, in London on the 21st September 2014.
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Xanadu from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
A five minute fly around the grounds of Hearst Castle, California including the Grand Rooms tour.
Hearst Castle is a National and California Historical Landmark mansion located on the Central Coast of California, United States. It was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951.
The California Park Commission voted to approve its inclusion in the California State Park System, and that was approved by the California State Legislature in 1954. However,...
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Big Sur, CA from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Big Sur is a sparsely populated region of the Central Coast of California where the Santa Lucia Mountains rise abruptly from the Pacific Ocean. Although it has no specific boundaries, many definitions of the area include the 90 miles (140 km) of coastline from the Carmel River in Monterey County south to the San Carpoforo Creek in San Luis Obispo County, and extend about 20 miles inland to the eastern foothills of the Santa Lucias. Other sources limit the eastern border to the coastal flanks of these mountains, only three to 12 miles inland....
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San Francisco in a day from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
San Francisco is the cultural center and a leading financial hub of the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. The only consolidated city-county in California, San Francisco encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,867 people per square mile. It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York...
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Venice Beach from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Short film showing the Venice district of Los Angeles, USA. Venice is a beach-front neighbourhood on the West side. It is known for its canals, beaches and the Ocean Front Walk, a 2.5 mile pedestrian only promenade that features performers, fortune-tellers, artists, and vendors. Venice was home to some of Los Angeles’ early beat poets and artists and has served as an important cultural centre of the city.
Originally called “Venice of America,” it was founded by tobacco millionaire Abbot Kinney in 1905 as a beach resort town. Back...
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Joshua Tree National Park from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Short film showing some of California's beautiful Joshua Tree National Park. It was declared a U.S. National Park in 1994, it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the park. It covers a land area of 3,199.59 km2 – an area slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island. Straddling the San Bernardino County/Riverside County border, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation:...
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LA Timelapse (Downtown & Hollywood) from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 50,000 people. An influx of workers swells the daytime population to nearly 600,000.
A heritage of the city's founding in 1781, Downtown today is composed of different areas ranging from a fashion district to a skid row, and it is the hub of the city's Metro rapid transit system. Banks, department stores and movie palaces at one time drew residents and visitors into the area,...
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Parliament Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
A selection of videos shot around the Palace of Westminster (The Houses of Parliament) Including Westminster bridge, Parliament Square, The London Eye, The Thames Embankment, Portcullis House & Westminster Abbey. The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after its tenants, the Palace lies on the Middlesex bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in central London....
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The Suleymaniye Mosque, built on the order of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, by the architectural genius Mimar Sinan. The construction work began in 1550 and the mosque was finished in 1558.
This vast religious complex blended Islamic and Byzantine architectural elements. It combines tall, slender minarets with large domed buildings supported by half domes in the style of the Byzantine church Hagia Sophia.
The design of the Suleymaniye also plays on Suleyman's self-conscious representation of himself as a 'second Solomon.' It references the Dome of the Rock, which was built on the site...
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Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia; Turkish: Ayasofya) is a former Greek Orthodox patriarchal basilica (church), later an imperial mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
From the date of its construction in 537 until 1453, it served as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral under the Latin Empire.
The building was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931. It was then secularized by Ataturk and opened...
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Oxford Circus Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
A selection of timelapse videos recorded at Oxford Circus, London. One of the busiest shopping streets in the capital. Featuring the pedestrian scramble (also known as an 'X' Crossing); Oxford Street, Regent Street, Niketown, Topshop, H & M flagship stores and the London Underground Station.
Music is 'people make the world go round' covered in 1973 by Chosen Few © Russell Thompkins, Jr, Herb Murrell, Airrion Love, James Smith, and James Dunn (The Stylistics) This reggae version is out on Trojan.
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St Paul' s Cathedral Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
Timelapse videos shot around St Paul' s Cathedral, London.
St Paul's is an Anglican Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London. Dating from the late 17th century, it was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. Its construction, completed within Wren's lifetime, was part of a major rebuilding programme which took place in the city after the Great Fire of London
Music is Forgive...
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Short film of some of the historical attractions in beautiful Marrakesh. Highlights include the Main Square (Jemaa El-Fna), The Koutoubia Mosque, The Souks, Medrassa Ben Youssef, The Majorelle Gardens and the Saadian Tombs.
3 Days in Marrakesh from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
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Timelapse videos shot from Sushi Samba on the 40th floor of the Heron Tower, London. the imperfections in the videos come from reflections in the glass (it would have been nice to turn off all the lights in the bar, but they were open for business at the time)
Music is Angel Echoes by Four Tet © Kieran Hebden - 2010 - On Domino Records
View from Sushi Samba Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
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A selection of timelapses shot around 30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin Building) in London.
Music is Pink Floyd - Money (Modified Noise Bootleg Trap Remix) © Roger Waters (original version) 1973 on Harvest - Remix by Modified Noise 2013
30 St Mary Axe Timelapse from Darren Ruane Photography on Vimeo.
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Film of the main historical attractions in beautiful Istanbul. Highlights include the Aya Sofya, The Blue Mosque, The Topkapi Palace, The Basilica Cistern, The Suleymaniye Mosque, The Grand Bazaar, The Chora Church, Galata Tower, The Bosphorus & the Whurling Dervishes
Shot in HD on the Canon 5d mark III.
Music by various artists
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360° scrollable panorama of Istanbul from the City Wall including Hagia Sofia, Suleiman Mosque, Galata Tower, The City wall, The golden Horn to name but a few sights.
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population of 13.9 million, the city forms one of the largest urban agglomerations in Europe and is the second-largest city in the world by population within city limits. Istanbul is a transcontinental city, straddling the Bosphorus—one of the world's busiest waterways—in northwestern Turkey, between the Sea of Marmara...
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