Katherine Bickford

When you live on Vancouver Island you spend a fair bit of time waiting for ferries, riding ferries, and waiting in the cafeteria line. You can also grab a nap, or in my case, get out a camera or two and pass the time shooting an Adventure in time lapse.

Leaving Tsawwassen

The route between Tsawwassen and Duke Point is convenient for me as it saves a fair bit of driving, but it’s pretty much a straight line crossing of Georgia Strait and can be a bit on the boring side compare to heading through Active Pass and into Swartz Bay.

But there is a fair whack of stuff to see if you’re interested in ships and clouds and the such.

And onto the time lapse videos…

I shoot time lapse video in a number of ways, the most common being shooting normal raw video and then using some fancy software to speed it up.

This is a segment of video that has been sped up, using between 1 and 10 frames per second instead of a typical video with 30 frames per second. The clouds are pretty, but the ferry was altering course to avoid logs and stuff so the video wound up on the computerized cutting room floor.

This was a great idea, but the relatively fast changes in direction messed things up as the ferry lined up for the approach to Duke Point.

This ended up as being close to the final production video, and for once the rolling and motion of the ferry did not conspire to thwart me.