Yosemite Timelapses

This summer we spent 8 days at Yosemite National Park. It was wonderful, and I'll be sure to post photos when I'm finished going through all 3000+ of them. Until then, enjoy the timelapses I shot from the valley floor, the mist trail, and from our hike to North Dome.

Yosemite Timelapses 2013 from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.

0:00 Half Dome from Valley Floor at sunset

0:17 Liberty Cap from the top of Vernal Falls (Mist Trail)

0:29 stars above Half Dome from Valley Floor

0:31 Half Dome from North Dome hike

0:48 Liberty Cap and Silver Apron from Emerald Pool on Mist Trail

1:07 Half Dome from Valley Floor during a rainy sunset

Music: "Black Eyed Susan" by Podington Bear (http://podingtonbear.com/)

Glacial Recession Timelapse part 7

The top is FINALLY and officially finished! Yipee! If you've missed all my other videos of this piece in progress, click on the label at the bottom of this post or search for "Glacial Recession". Here was my last post. And, here is the final timelapse video of the top of this piece (no I haven't even begun the back yet so it'll be a bit before the whole thing is ready to quilt):

Art Process Timelapse 7 - Glacial Recession Top Finished from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.

Zion: A three-year tradition

Yes, I have been very slow going through all the photos from this year's vacation. How did it get to be late November and I'm still going through pictures from May, I don't know. Anyway, so lets get back to that, shall we?

At the end of our trip, we opted to tack on a small detour to Zion, but first we had to drive there which can be quite pretty:

 Vermillion Cliffs

Glen Canyon Bridge & Dam

Surprisingly, after four days in the Grand Canyon and the hiking intensity, we were amazed at how another 5 mile hike with a 1400+ ft elevation change felt good rather than painful. On our first trip to Zion, Mike and I had to work up to the Angel's Landing hike and last year's trip we tried the Observation Point trail in Zion. Since it was a first trip to Zion for both our dads, we opted for the Angel's Landing hike again. Rather than talk about it, I'll just share some photos and a timelapse from the top:

 Walter's Wiggles

 Looking up to Angel's Landing

 Climbing Chains

Zion Timelapse 20120527 from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.

Next: Kolob Canyons, Zion National Park

This is a series on our 2012 trip. In case you missed them, here are my previous posts:

• Final Day in the Grand Canyon
• Little Oases in the Grand Canyon - Day 3
• The Sky In the Grand Canyon - Phantom Ranch Part 2
• Rockin' the Bottom - Phantom Ranch Part 1
• Trekking the South Kaibab Trail into the Grand Canyon
• Petroglyph National Monument and the Painted Desert

All photos copyright Katrina Kouba Boles

Done! Or at least almost Done!

So I finally finished up the mountains in the front of Glacial Recession. This means I either start re-doing the sky or set it aside for a while to create the back - this is what I'm thinking of doing. Anyway, lets just get right to it. I think this is the most exciting of my timelapses so far:
Art Process Timelapse 6 from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.

Glacial Recession Timelapse #5

Slowly, but surely, I'm making progress on "Glacial Recession". Last week I uploaded a new timelapse and this week, I'm getting closer and closer to having the top "done". Of course that means I need to get on the ball about getting the back designed and done...
Art Process Timelapse 5 from Katrina Kouba on Vimeo.
My original plan to have the whole piece done by the end of the year is a tight deadline that I'm not sure I'll make it. Regardless, it's enjoyable work - for the most part.

Art in progress... Glacial Recession Part 4

So I've been busy creating lately which is totally awesome!! Since we got back from vacation (don't worry, I'll get back to my pictures and posts of the trip as I alternate between projects) I've gotten back into the studio and have been working full-steam ahead on my "Glacial Recession" piece. So, four months after I did the first three timelapses (see the others here, here and here), I've finally uploaded another one. The first two sections were shot in February and the last ones were done this past week.


I've finally achieved the look I want using salt and the dyes to create texture, and I am even re-designing the bottom part of the piece. Actually, I'm not really sure I can call it a re-design, considering I didn't really have a plan for it in the first place. This past winter, I forced myself to move ahead, working on the sky first, without worrying about the bottom. Sure enough, as my dear friend Mindy says, the piece spoke to me - it finally told me what it is supposed to look like. It's going to require more fabric and more dyes, so I know what I'll be doing.

Here are some of my first pieces of fabric that show the wonderful texture I've been getting with the salt:

 Procion MX Reactive dyes: Cerulean, Lemon Yellow, and Sky Blue

Procion MX Reactive Dyes: Lemon Yellow, Sky Blue, and Cobalt

All photos copyright Katrina Kouba Boles

Timelapse Fun

So, I've been working on capturing timelapses when the weather cooperates - it seems either there's not a cloud in the sky, or it's raining. I got some fantastic clouds, but had the timer set too slow so they go by so fast it's sad, and then there were issues with my little tripod not wanting to stay put. Le sigh. Going back through my attempts to date, I think this sunset is probably the best I've shot so far:



Hopefully, I'll get some more good ones in coming days. (I gotta get the hang of this before Grand Canyon, don't ya know.)

Timelapsed Progress of Glacial Recession - Week 3

Alas, another week gone by, fortunately my progress has continued to pick up. Once again, I've captured the dyeing and design process of Glacial Recession. This is the last week I'll be recording the work done in the dye/printing room. But, I intend to continue to record the process of layout and design.

Previous posts on this:
Glacial Recession - starting the project
Week 1 - Creative two-ways
Week 2 - Design and Dye

Design and Dye - Week 2 of timelapsing my art

I got a lot of encouragement from a couple of fantastic people who said they really enjoyed watching my timelapse last week. So, on Saturday, after I'd decided I wouldn't be doing any more timelapses in the studio and headed out to the garage to do some spray-bottle dying, when I came back downstairs and started hanging fabric on the wall, I just couldn't stop myself. Can we say narcissistic? Anyway, most of this week was spent in the printing room, where I experimented with rolling thickened dye on, printing it on wet fabric, and using salt to attempt to get the fabrics for this piece. It's been touch and go as my frustration at trying to get a blue gray surmounted to a new decision that the sky is just not going to have gray. I really loved the texture I got from rolling the dye on, but didn't want to just do that. And the printed texture of leaves and trees are quite lovely once the actual images turn into texture rather than the specific images they started out as. Finally, I managed to control the dye/salt mixture to start getting some really interesting results.



And, I am trying out a new way of rinsing the dyes, which I found on Vicki Welsh's blog.

Creative two-ways

Every year on vacation, I "have" to get one timelapse of a sunrise and one of a sunset. It started in Glacier, the first vacation I had a video camera. Now that I have a new DSLR camera and got a timer for Christmas, I figured I need to learn to work the thing. Here's my second attempt at a timelapse (the first attempt is so bad it's not worth keeping):


So by now you're probably wondering where the second way I've been creative comes in... Well, lately have been frustrated by my big quilt that I began finally really working on last fall (Glacial Recession), but that hasn't kept me out of the studio this week. With all my curiosity about making good timelapses,  wouldn't you know it, I came across a video of a timelapse of a painter in her studio. One thing led to another, and voila, I couldn't stop myself. Once I had the timer going, I had to do SOMETHING. So here you have it, a timelapse of me working in my studio not quite every day, but often enough...


Y'know, I really should put some music under this for interest....oh well, next time.