Another week, another 50-year rain storm…
I’m partly joking, I don’t know the recurrence level of this current storm but it’s nothing to sneeze at.
Here’s the flow gauge of the river for the past 30 days. We’re in for another fun few days with the current forecast having the river rise potentially 2 feet above where it is right now, but they said the last storm would reach 7 feet as well, and it didn’t quite hit that mark.
On the other hand we’re starting from a significantly higher point.
All this water means that I’ll have a chance to visit a few more of the local streams and capture some, um, “rigorous” flow conditions.
These two events back to back have me hankering to build a time-lapse movie of the river’s rise. Today it rose rather dramatically and did so during the daylight hours. The only problem is that it was pouring rain and we had non-trivial winds as well. I think I’m going to poke around and see if I can build a watertight box with a plexiglas viewport, perhaps lockable so I can chain it to a tree or something if needed. This would let me set it up for a 12 hour run and try to bring this dynamic event to life.
As evening drew near I decided the 5D needed a bath, so I headed out into the backyard to take a few images. I nearly froze my hands off in 15 minutes — the rain must be at 33 degrees (F). Here’s a bit of video from this evening:
Technical:
Images and video captured with a well-soaked Canon 5D Mark II, 16-35mm f/2.8L. Image was at ISO 400, 1.6 seconds, f/5.6. Video was at ISO 3200, 1/60, f/2.8. Both were taken from Gitzo sticks and a Manfrotto fluid head.
Image processed with Lightroom, bit of fill and black point, moderate clarity. Video was transcoded to ProRes LT by MPEG Streamclip, which was an unnecessary step because I then imported it into iMovie to trim, add the titles, and adjusted exposure +35%. Exported directly from iMovie to Quicktime H.264.
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