Last week I was hit with a small wave of inspiration. I was contemplating the issues surrounding how photography only captured a moment in time and was a lousy way to show the progression of time. Most people use long exposures to try to capture the passage of time but this isn't the same as the progression of time. At this point the aforementioned wave suddenly hit me. What if you took a series of several pictures over several hours and then blended them together horizontally to show the progression of time?

Today I was finally able to test my idea.

Looks spiffy doesn't it?

I looked up the concept on the internet and was disappointed to find that I wasn't the first person to have this idea, but it is fairly obscure. Martin Krzywinski has been working on what he calls high dynamic time range photography for a couple years based on pictures he takes from Vancouver webcams. His technique is geekier than mine but it seems overly complex. He accomplishes the HDTR effect by combining a small amount of many pictures together, whereas I lean more towards combining a larger amount of fewer pictures. The difference is subtle, but I like my technique since it allows me to go home and eat dinner (mmm... steak...) between pictures and not get eaten by bugs.