Land of the Living Skies III | A 4K Storm Time-lapse Film from Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan, Canada is home to incredible storms. During the summer months, these storms morph into supercells that make fantastic time-lapse subjects. The summer of 2021 had a slower summer storm season where Saskatchewan didn't record a tornado in July for the first time in many years. We saw a couple of really great late August storms that produced supercell structure and some of the time-lapse clips included in this film. Storms at the end of August aren't typical but made up for a slow season.
This film features time-lapse from many different storms from the 2021 #skstorm season. I chased both big systems and small ones. The four major events included are:
- July 7th tornado-warned storm near Central Butte, Saskatchewan
- July 22nd isolated storm near Weyburn, Saskatchewan
- August 23rd tornado-warned that I chased with my wife and three kids near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
- August 31st supercell that also received a tornado warning before hitting Regina. Saskatchewan.
A timelapse film is only as good as the music and this year I blended a couple of Ka Engel tracks. A very talented artist you may have heard on my channel before. Please check out his artist page at the links below.
www.kai-engel....
freemusicarchi...
A big thank you to my wife for all the support. This would not be possible without you. Thank you to my kids for helping mom out while I disappeared for hours on end.
To see more of my work, you can visit my website: www.scottaspin...
Technical Stuff:
- Shot with a Nikon D800e and a Nikon D3300. Using primarily the Tamron 15-30 2.8 and Sigma 50mm 1.8 lenses but mixing in the Tamron 70-200 2.8 from time to time as well as the kit lens for the D3300 when in a pinch
- All clips are available in 6K resolution
- Music and sound effects licensed from freemusicarchi...

[@nkausha]

Beautiful work Scott. Always so inspiring.

[@ScottAspinall]

Really glad you like it my friend! Hope you're doing well

[@MikeOlbinski]

Awesome work man!!!

[@ScottAspinall]

Really glad to hear you enjoyed Mike! If it's got your seal of approval I know I'm on the right track. Sidenote - my kids keep asking me to watch "that storm video" again and again and they aren't talking about mine haha. Your latest is bonkers

[@terrythometz9482]

Made me think of you Mr. Olbinski. So beautiful. Thank you all.

[@MikeOlbinski]

@@ScottAspinall hahaha man that’s hilarious :) Kids are the best and keep us humble with those kinds of comments lol. I’ve heard “Pecos is the best storm chaser” in my own house lol

[@judilee1475]

fabulous!

[@ScottAspinall]

Thank you very much Judi! Happy you enjoyed

[@AndyFyon]

Lovely

[@ScottAspinall]

Thanks for watching Andy!

[@ds_cameraworx]

Awesome work Scott! I'm glad you were able to get more in August to complete this!

[@ScottAspinall]

Appreciate it my friend! Glad you like it. August definitely salvaged the entire season haha. Hoping for a more productive season next year

[@uptrack5235]

Absolutely incredible! How many months of Timelapse is this? A whole summer, or more? Great video!!!

[@ScottAspinall]

Thanks so much! This was all from this summer. Our first storm was in late May and our last (and coincidentally our most photogenic) was the end of August.

[@uptrack5235]

So cool, love the patience and commitment to make these films!

[@Mikeym456]

This is awesome Scott! I been starting to dabble with my Time Lapse setting on my D750. I just have couple questions with your wide angle lens how long do you take your shots for and at what interval do you shoot at to get the dynamic Range? Any chance we can catch up some time down in Moose Jaw?

[@ScottAspinall]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed. My settings vary quite widely between storms so that's hard to speak to. My interval is set to 1 or 2 seconds to keep the final timelapse smooth - it has less to do with dynamic range. I'm not in Moose Jaw often and only ever drive through. Feel free to message me on IG or something though and maybe something will work.

[@kikowow82]

Awesome video!!! Absolutely stunning!!!

[@ScottAspinall]

So glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[@thepee-onpress]

no finer example to illustrate how creation and destruction coexist. I wonder when the leaves of grass raise their eyes toward the heavens if they mistake a super cell for a supernova. the stars are not what we think they are -- oh no, not by far.

[@darreljohannes3105]

Dude your art is amazing . Its top drawer and people will be noticing it more starting very soon .

[@ScottAspinall]

Thanks a lot Darrel! Your comment made my day. Really appreciate it!

[@yadwindersingh1067]

Absolutely great work Man. 👏

[@ScottAspinall]

Really glad to hear you enjoyed it! Thanks for checking it out

[@gwenturchak7217]

Beautiful Scott!

[@ScottAspinall]

Glad you enjoyed! Hopefully there's some good storms next year

[@Qwackdawack]

Very cool !!

[@ScottAspinall]

Really happy you enjoyed this video. Thanks for watching

[@748binn]

Really cool!

[@ScottAspinall]

So glad you like it! Have a good weekend

[@terryroth2855]

Some nice viewing here Scott. Good to see that you’re still kickin.👍👍

[@ScottAspinall]

Definitely, just have had to shift priorities as work ramped up. Unfortunately that meant KZbin was on the chopping block. How have you been Terry?

[@terryroth2855]

@@ScottAspinall Hello Scott. Barely survived summer here. It was horribly hot, dry, and Smokey. Nothing nice at all about summer. Fall is looking pretty good, now though. Finally getting out and enjoying life. Feels great. Hope you are able to get out more these days. Did get a lot better at developing B&W film though. Actually film is a lot of fun these days. Take care now.🙂

[@josewester4857]

Nice Timelapse Video Super

[@chris_perea]

Fantastic Scott. Who doesn't like a pretty anvil cloud ha! And some serious rotation going on in some of the storms. Cool stuff

[@ScottAspinall]

Thanks Chris! Definitely had a couple of great storms this summer. Nothing like what is normal, though. Hoping for better next year!

[@chris_perea]

@@ScottAspinall we got all the rain this year, above average. But the drought is still hard.

[@ScottAspinall]

You're to blame then! Haha. If you can share some next year it will be greatly appreciated 😄

[@chris_perea]

@@ScottAspinall haha NOPE, we take all the rain we can get here🤪

[@josephcole3187]

Excellent man I’m really happy you were able to put this together i know you were pretty bummed half way through summer that the activity was low. Came out with some amazing footage buddy 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@ScottAspinall]

I'm really happy too haha. It would have been a pretty big disappointment to sit on a few clips until next year hah. Thanks for watching buddy!