Timelapse video sunset at Callanish standing stones.

Calanais Sunset Timelapse In late September I spent a week's photo-holiday on Lewis and Harris. One of the major highlights was visiting the standing stones at Calanais (Callanish); on my second visit I set up the old Nikon D200 and made a timelapse of the sun setting behind the stones at a rate of a frame every 15 seconds for nearly 2 hours, as the sky changed from vibrant orange with the stones silhouetted black, to cool blue after the sun set and as evening mist/dew rose.

A timelapse video of clouds across Loch Lochy in the Great Glen

I was driving along the A82 in the evening as the sun was setting behind the mountains of Sean Mheall and Meall nan Dearcag on the opposite side of Loch Lochy, when the patterns of white wispy cirrus caught my eye, so I stopped by the roadside and made a short timelapse video of the cloud patterns evolving over the course of 5 minutes. Technical details: Canon EOS550D, remote release cable, an image every 3 seconds for a total of 105 frames.

Timelapse video of a partial solar halo in cirrus cloud toward sunset.

One of the more commonly encountered atmospheric optical phenomena, a 22-degree solar halo is caused by ice-crystals (typically associated with light wispy cirrus cloud) refracting the sun's light, giving the effect of a circular ring spectrum like a rainbow, centred on the sun. I saw this one as I was driving along the side of Loch Lochy as the sun had set below the level of the mountains on the other side of the loch. After shooting a few stills, I thought it would be interesting to watch the