Oslo gets a long winter, a decent summer, and a short spring and autumn

December 6, 2014 4:48 PM

In years past, Eirik Solheim has been interested in capturing the passing of a year, as seen in his wooded yard in Oslo. In 2010, he set up his camera to take an image every half hour, and from that, he selected 3888 photos to serve as single pixel-wide samples in a photo collage of the year. He also selected 3500 shots for a timelapse video of the year, with and without zoom.

He posted about how he made the video, and also has a page collecting his prior time-lapse videos.

posted by filthy light thief (20 comments total)

I always feel such a sense of loss seeing so much time reduced to so little.
posted by Oxydude at 5:06 PM on December 6, 2014 [2 favorites]

Eirik Solheim was mentioned previously, when he fought Vinderen Elektriske (an electronics shop who used a photo of his son in an advert) and won.

And from the Flickr photo, you can find a couple other interesting panoramas in visua panorama gallery, which includes some time-lapse panoramas.
posted by filthy light thief at 5:07 PM on December 6, 2014

This is great! I just finished doing a two-week timelapse of a show loadin, one week run and loadout, and his posts fill in some holes I ran into. Even just keeping track of the images really gets pretty crazy.
posted by nevercalm at 5:07 PM on December 6, 2014

My favorite timelapse.
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:09 PM on December 6, 2014 [3 favorites]

And now I find the best tag for these photos is "timelapse panorama," which lead me to this great panorama taken over the course of an hour. Here's another short-time panorama, Time-lapse panorama of the Atlanta skyline.

... and more timelapse photos of varying interest, which I found via Google image search, in the hopes of finding the source of this widely re-posted sun-sequence timelapse photo.
posted by filthy light thief at 5:12 PM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

MeFi veterans will remember that our own terrapin did a similar thing with his farm/barn over the course of 2008.
posted by LeLiLo at 5:40 PM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

I noticed the trees all droop and rise in unison during the summer months. It can't be wind. Could it be caused by rainfall? Wetter ground causing the trees to be more full of water?
posted by leotrotsky at 5:41 PM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

My favourite winter clothes are the ones I bought when I visited Oslo in August a couple of years ago, stupidly thinking that since it was midsummer, sundresses, sandals and a couple of light pullovers would do me.
posted by lollusc at 6:45 PM on December 6, 2014

Huh. Pretty cool, but I thought there would be a lot more snow in Oslo. Looking it up, I see the city averages only about 30 inches of snow per year. Weird.
posted by NoMich at 7:38 PM on December 6, 2014 [1 favorite]

Always been one of my favorite images! I love how it shows just how bleeding SHORT spring and fall really are. Get out there and enjoy it, because it won't last!
posted by rebent at 9:13 PM on December 6, 2014

he set up his camera to take an image every half hour, and from that, he selected 3888 photos to serve as single pixel-wide samples in a photo collage of the year.

I feel like this photo collage would have looked a bit nicer if the stripes had been adjusted for lighting conditions.
posted by pwnguin at 9:19 PM on December 6, 2014

Oh, I like the timelapse video! The trees look like they are breathing and sighing, especially when it gets into fall.
posted by mochapickle at 9:38 PM on December 6, 2014

My favourite winter clothes are the ones I bought when I visited Oslo in August a couple of years ago, stupidly thinking that since it was midsummer, sundresses, sandals and a couple of light pullovers would do me.

The only time I have been to Oslo was in July or August, and there was a heat wave. I can remember being about as hot as I have ever been in my life, crammed on a full city bus stuck in traffic. It was actually one of about four times in my life I came close to heat exhaustion, along with the time I was similarly stuck in traffic in Hermosillo and a couple of times misjudging the heat while working outdoors.

The timelapse video was neat. I've liked timelapse films ever since watching movies (shown on an actual projector, to date myself here) of slime molds in high school biology class. (Oddly, one of my to-do items this week is to download a bunch of footage and -- assuming the cameras worked as intended -- put together some timelapse videos of project footage, so this FPP is particularly well-timed and I may be returning for the how-to aspects if things don't go smoothly.)
posted by Dip Flash at 5:42 AM on December 7, 2014

Huh. Pretty cool, but I thought there would be a lot more snow in Oslo. Looking it up, I see the city averages only about 30 inches of snow per year. Weird.

Oslo is right on the water, which probably mitigates snowfall.
posted by lunasol at 5:48 AM on December 7, 2014 [1 favorite]

This past summer in Ontario seemed to go about that speed.
posted by bonobothegreat at 5:57 AM on December 7, 2014

Summer according to the North, a pie chart.

Summer, fall winter in Ottawa, three (faux? vintage) photos of (some) canal.
posted by filthy light thief at 6:27 AM on December 7, 2014

Here's the four month timelapse I made of an epic winter on Georgian Bay last year. (I also got posted to MeFi here.)
posted by kaibutsu at 10:31 AM on December 7, 2014

I only know one thing about Oslo, and it's a joke. Someone told me, and he was from Norway, but not from Oslo.

This man visits Oslo, and is invited to a dinner party. He is sitting next to a young local, and initiates makes small talk:
- "Hey, does it always rain, here in Oslo?"
- "I don't know, I'm only seventeen!".

Thank you, I'll be here (not Oslo) all week.
posted by kandinski at 4:54 PM on December 7, 2014

Summer, fall winter in Ottawa, three (faux? vintage) photos of (some) canal.

The Rideau Canal, one of the nicest spots in Ottawa to observe the seasons change, which this year were very similar to that year in Oslo. Those photos are all from sometime in the last three or so years, judging by that structure on the right hand side, which is a newish canalside restaurant. Your pie chart is also very accurate for Ottawa's seasons, which are all pretty harsh (though also pretty).
posted by urbanlenny at 7:40 PM on December 7, 2014

As mentioned, Oslo is on the water, which keeps temperatures warmer than in the interior of Norway. Even in the far north, temperatures on the coast are quite pleasant, due to the Gulf Stream pushing warm water our way. It never gets super-hot in the summer, though, but the midnight sun kind of makes up for it.
posted by Harald74 at 6:37 AM on December 8, 2014