St Kilda Timelapse

As part of St Kilda: The Opera, Central have been commissioned to record a long-term timelapse on the main island of the St Kilda group, Hirta.
The viewpoint looks North East out over to Boreray. Each day 1100 images are being taken (it hardly gets dark at this time of year).

Installing and keeping this all going has been a big technical challenge , but well worth the effort when you see the results as stills and animations of individual days.

One thing you don’t get is the vast scale - the islands in shot are 6km away - so we’ve added the Eiffel Tower to scale to give an idea of the relative sizes involved.

Setup on Flickr

Stills on Flickr

Single day animations