What comes first, the music or the picture? I think it can be either, or both. Films get scored, music videos get shot. But sometimes, I think, a visual idea is born with the soundtrack already well-stitched into the creators mind. My obsession with finding cool time lapse photography (see them all here) has led me to this rather magical time-lapse shot in the cold north of Norway, and I’m trying to figure out which came first.
Toby Lockerbie spent 16 day days in Norway hiking, walking, falling, trying, failing and more often than not just waiting … waiting for clear skies so that he could shoot the Aurora Borealis. He spent his days sleeping and his nights awake, shooting everything else besides what he went there for. He went slightly mad. Eventually he got the shot but what he finally came away with was this story. It’s edited to Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King which conveys a kind of madness that makes you think that he had the track on loop in his brain the entire time he was up there. It’s an ohrwurm and you’ll be humming it for the rest of the day.
Why I shoot lights at night
Why I shoot Lights at night from TobyLoc on Vimeo.
