On August 20, this blog will turn one year old. To celebrate I’ve made a reel of some of my favorite content that has appeared on this blog (and its predecessor) over the past 12 months.
In many ways, this is like living a year in my life — compressed into 1 minute and 46 seconds.
The video brings you through China (Beijing Municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shanghai Municipality, Tianjin Municipality, Shaanxi Province, Anhui Province, Hebei Province), Algeria (Algiers, Oran), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Tioman Palao, Cameroon Highlands) and the United States of America (Lake Tahoe, San Fransisco, Big Sur, San Louis Obispo, Paso Robles), to name a few.
If you can’t tell from that list — its been a very interesting 12 months and I feel very privileged to get to meet so many interesting people and see so many amazing places.
In the video, you see 210 photos go by at an average speed of .06 seconds each. These photographs (with the exception of the slow moving ones) are all actually appearing in chronological order of when they were taken. Since .06 seconds is not much time, if your interested, you can see them individually here. They are arranged by capture time — the most recent being Yao Ming below.
You will notice the crops are all very narrow on these photos as they were sized at 1152 pixels by 648 pixels to adjust for pixel aspect ratio variation of still photographs used in the video medium. Although sometimes this is fine, a lot of them are cropped a little too tight — but when flying by at .06 seconds, it doesn’t hurt too much.
In the reel almost everything has been seen on this blog. However, you do get some quick snapshots into an unreleased film I’ve been working on for months now. Anything you don’t recognize, you can assume is coming from this video.
8 Responses to “Happy Birthday Blog”
Sue Anne says:
What a great celebratory post! Your job certainly allows you such great access and travel, here’s to another great year.
For one year, this blog is very extensive and I’ve always been impressed with people who are so adept at building sites.
Jenny Crumbsey says:
Always enjoy a great Kessel image – 210 are even better. Keep up the exceptional work!
Silvia Simeonova says:
Beautiful year!
德扬 says:
Many good year yet to come, Happy BDay Blog – viva la photographia
Christopher Tvärne says:
That’s great, Jonah! I enjoy reading your blog. Keep up the good work!
Liz Mitchell says:
Congratulations on reaching the 1 year mark! I just recently discovered your blog which feeds my passion for photography and China. To much more ahead.
South side of Shelburne (J-Lo) says:
Keep the reel going, the picture maker snapping, and don’t forget to work on going left with pace and intensity!
Nancy Rae says:
Happy Birthday. I can’t wait to celebrate your second year!
Will be in China from September to November. What a prelude your photos were. I just found you today! Keep providing those visual deserts.