Brian McClave is an experimental photographer, specialising in time-lapse photography.  With digital videographer Gavin Peacock, he shot this incredible 10 minute 3D short. NINETY THREE MILLION MILES captures the movement of the stars, and the incredible colours of the Aurora Borealis, using time-lapse.  Whether you’re watching the swimming of the solar winds, or the heaving of the immense machinery being used to examine the skies, the effect is never anything less than stunning.

…the most beautiful 3D film it will ever be your privilege to see…

The score was provided by Phil MouldyCliff and Colin Potter from the ICR record label, and works perfectly to accentuate the atmosphere. In front of all these 3D videos of the sky at night, and the majestic icy vistas of Lapland, we see scientific diagrams, explaining the nature of solar winds and the magnetosphere.  This is all explained to us in narration by George Millward, an atmospheric physicist from the University College London.  While it’s certainly good to get the science straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, his is not the softest of voices. (one would normally expect Morgan Freeman’s voice when watching this kind of thing).  This is such a minor complaint, but it bears noting that coming from another’s lips, the fast-paced science might actually sink in, when as it is, you feel like he’s sitting behind you killing your buzz.

This doesn’t detract, however, from the most beautiful 3D film it will ever be your privilege to see.  Those solar winds will blow you away.

Cover photo (c) Andrew McCargow

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