The autumn view on Shasta View Drive

Although recent heavy rains have taken their toll on the fall colored foliage, these trees lining Shasta View Drive in Redding still look nice on a brisk autumn day in 2024.

Beautiful fall colors on the trees looking at MtShasta in the distance from Shasta Vew Drive in Redding CA

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Morning mist in Redding CA

Sun seen through mist in Redding CA
Morning mist rising up from the pool signals the approaching Autumnal end of our swim season, which in turn sets my mind’s eye soaring up into the dreamy sky overhead and back. Music excerpt “Mystical Fantasies” by Craig Padilla.

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Late summer sunset, where the river runs through Redding

Here’s a soothing flight overlooking the Sacramento River as it passes through Redding California on its way to the sea. The devastating Park Fire rages into the fragile and crucial Mill Creek drainage of the norther Sierra. One of the few remaining un-dammed Salmon runs for protected spring run fish. Truly awful events taking place to the east provide a a golden and smoky light to Redding. Pretty, but deadly.

Video capture and editing by Skip Murphy. Soundtrack by me and Craig Padilla.

Sunset view 8-7-2024 of the Sacramento River as it flows through Redding CA

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4th of July 2024 in Redding CA

Brief timelapse of fireworks (24sec) captured in Redding California on July 4th 2004. Redding has an annual celebration display funded by an amazing philanthropic fund, The McConnell Foundation. It has become quite the party for the whole region. Without this event, we would undoubtably see many, many more wildfires in our tinder dry summer landscape from unauthorized goons, firebugs, and drunkards. Thank you McConnell foundation! #thisisredding

Every year I have a plan for a timelapse shoot, and every year my plan evaporates when I try. This year they started early(?!?) and caught me off guard setting up. Every year, its always something. Oh well, there’s always next year to get it right. No good way to practice when you only get a shot at it once a year lol!

Fireworks from 7/4/2024

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Fireworks from 7/4/2024

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Sunset at Lake Redding

Lake Redding forms when the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District raises a wooden dam across the Sacramento River at Caldwell Park. The resulting weir supplies the old irrigation canal feeding the homes and farms to the south. There is a fish ladder. Drift boats ply the lake. The water is very cold, as it comes from the bottom of Shasta Dam.

I was getting set up to do a time lapse, but was not in the position I had planned. They sky turned gold and I popped the drone up anyway, so as to not miss the peak. It wasn’t what I planned, but it turned out very nice. The river is flowing east, toward the drone. The clouds are flowing north. Then, a southbound train crosses the river on the trestle. A boat is seen. All of it very nice.

Still shots of Lake Redding at sunset

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Solstice Sunrise on the Sundial Bridge 2024

This turned out nice. Video by me. It’s Really Redding.

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The 150 year history of the Redding School District.

A really very interesting documentary about the history of Redding’s schools:

I had a tiny (very tiny) part in adding to this documentary with an 1890 map of Redding I archived here at Really Redding in 2016. Click to enlarge:

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I don’t remember where I got the map, and unfortunately didn’t credit it at the time. I did make it into a gif that compares the 1890 Redding to (then) present day Redding from 2016 courtesy of Google Earth:

I think I need to update this to a more current satellite image of Redding. I thought it turned out very well in 2016.

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A brief timelapse of Castle Crags

A very brief timelapse I captured in late Spring of 2024 featuring the famous Castle Crags of southern Siskiyou County. More a learning exercise than anything. I hope to do more and longer timelapse videos.

Snow dusted Xastle Crags from Spring of 2024

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Timelapse sunrise over Redding CA 4/12/2024 – 5 seconds long.

Did this TL yesterday. Turned out nice.

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While 5 seconds may be my attention span lately, bear in mind that this took a lot longer to shoot and edit. I shot a frame every 10 seconds and you see it here at 24 frames per second. So, roughly 128 shots taken over 20 minutes or so. Took about an hour to edit it to what you see here. Makes you appreciate those really long timelapses you see some artists do.

 

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Glowing Wild at Turtle Bay

Blog author and photographer Skip Murphy with The Lovely Karry at Glowing Wild exhibit

Here are a few images I captured of the Glowing Wild exhibit at the McConnell Arboretum at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding.

Glowing Wild at Turtle Bay is lovely and well worth your time:
 
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