San Francisco – Kien Lam’s video will make you want to book the first plane out to some exotic destination.
Lam is a San Francisco photographer who created a spectacular video documenting his journey taking in 15 countries around the world.
From Australia to India and Nepal to Nicaragua, inventive Lam has stitched together 6 286 photos to create a magnificent timelapse that whisks viewers around the world in four minutes.
The slick video features his trips to 15 countries compiled from trips taken over three years.
(He manages, however, to entirely miss the African continent –but perhaps that is still to come.) The beautifully shot world tour contains an hour of real-time pictures compressed into two or three-second clips to represent the different locations.
It includes fantastic photography from the US, Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Australia, New Zealand, India, Nepal, Nicaragua and Honduras.
From high up in the Annapurna Circuit of Nepal down into the Waitomo caves of New Zealand, this video is a sequel to a first timelapse taken by Lam after he quit his job in 2010 and went travelling, snapping photos as he went.
Lam says: “Many people were disappointed to see that their country was not represented in my first video. Since 2012, I’ve managed to travel to another 15 countries and continued capturing the beauty of the world in a series of time lapses.
“I took well over 10 000 photographs and used 6 286 of those images to put together this next chapter in my journey to see as much of the world as possible.
“This is dedicated to all the people I’ve met on my travels and especially to the ones who stood still and made cameos in the video. Special thanks to my family for supporting everything I do and to my brother, William Lam, for writing the composition.
“I received a lot of beautiful e-mails from people who could barely string together a sentence in English, but did so anyway just to say how appreciative they are that they got to see so many beautiful places around the world in such a short time. A heartwarming way to start the new year for me.”
Daily Mail
Check out the video at http://whereandwander.com