I've always wanted to do an extremely long term timelapse, something on the order of 20+ years. The logistics are tough though. Not only do you have to find a stable location, you also need an interesting composition. Something that will show both natural growth and economic growth.

Once it's running, I think it would be cool to have videos that are autogenerated, so it's always up to date. Or the ability to pick a start and end date.

You could probably get a local/state government to invest in that sort of project.

That's an excellent idea. I had honestly never considered that.

It has always been a personal project that would be fun to do.

It seems like the trees were breathing in and out. Sort of reminds me of another video with the same concept, except it was of a flower following the sun.

That's a good way of saying it :) I'm pretty sure it is linked to how much water is in the ground. Actually, it could be quite interesting to overlay a graph of precipitation during that year.

With the light changing it's difficult to see the trees growing. I'd like to see this video again, but at the same time each day.

Interesting, if you watch the bottom through the first 4-5 months the camera zooms in slowly. The result from start to end is a fairly large field of view difference. I wonder what caused this... a software issue or maybe motor drift in the camera over time. Very cool.

Edit: thanks to the commenter below, I missed the post processing zoom he added. Thanks!

I think the zoom is deliberate. He explains in the description, but I didn't read thoroughly...

Very, very interesting!

I felt a little heartbroken when I was watching the little shrubs grow and then suddenly get chopped off sometime in September.

So this is what a time machine would feel like!

Cool article though, really loved the video.

Admittedly, the weather in Norway (I believe) is very similar to the weather here in Indiana. And I looked: Indianapolis = 39 N, Oslo = 59 N. And right now, the weather in Indianapolis is 20F while it's 34F in Oslo.

Also, there's a week-long time frame in which the leaves have the beautiful red-golden hues that make Brown County the craziest place for that said week. The video also seems to reflect that similar happening. Perhaps someone there can confirm?

(Note: a county is a regional boundary inside a state. It goes US-State-County in many places. Some states use other names, like parish for the intra-state boundary.)

The gulf stream makes the weather in Norway a lot warmer than it should have been, so it might well be that the weather is similar even though latitude is so different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream

You can see that the sun is quite low on the horizon during the winter, though, which is probably quite different from Indianapolis.

And yes, Oslo is quite magnificent for a couple of weeks in th fall.