A Bushnell wildlife camera caught this herd of young and old javelinas vandalizing our bird bath.
This is a longitudinal sampling of ⅓ of the images taken by the Arizona Webcam at noon from January 2006 through September 2016. You can watch the palm trees grow and see occasional bursts of roof repair and distant building construction.
Local solar noon varies from about 12:10 to 12:40. Palm tree shadows in the lower left move to show this the yearly cycle. The few deciduous trees also drop leaves annually.
A camera trap powered by CHDK captured these visitors to a back-yard tub garden.
After growing for nearly two years in a tub, our water lily finally decided to bloom. Each flower typically opens for two or three days in a row and then disappears. Here is one day's action at about 3000× real time.
In October of 2013 my back yard was landscaped by Sonoran Gardens. A Canon A710IS pocket camera, mounted on a wall and driven by CHDK, took a picture every four seconds. This first video shows the highlights at about 120× real time.
I experimented with automated approaches for reducing the full project to a manageable length. In the following videos, each frame reflects five minutes of elapsed time, for an overall speedup of 9000×.
The Franklin Building (its final name) housed the law college and later the journalism school of the University of Arizona. It was demolished in 2006 and replaced by McClelland Park housing the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences. Hand-held photos were aligned using software originally designed for use with microscope slides: the StackReg and TurboReg plug-ins for ImageJ.
From 2000 to 2009 I set up and ran the Arizona Webcam. This full-day sequence is one of my favorites, with a dozen distinct storms passing across the foothills. Many more movies from this camera can be found on the Video Vault page.
Workmen clean the gutters of pigeon debris at the University of Arizona's Cochise Hall; note the hazmat suits. The worn-out USB camera had lost its ability to produce reasonable color.