Month: May 2018

This week, come on a virtual visit to the Holloway Bar gold mine in this collection of four short videos:

Dawn is one of the most spectacular times of the day on Holloway Bar as the sun tries to poke through the swirling fog banks early in the morning. This video was captured on the morning of June 16, 2006.

Watch us set off a bear banger – intended to scare away any bears that might be giving you trouble.

I created a number of time lapse videos from the Holloway Bar portable webcam and created this video…

Just a random collection of videos about getting to and wandering around the Holloway Bar Placer Mine. In split screen format, this video has a lot happening in a short time!

Thanks for watching this week!   Stay tuned for more..

This started off as just a couple of random timelapses that I work on from time to time, but once it was organized a little and music added, it seemed to come to life. The images for these came from several of the hollowaybar.com webcams – sometimes from a compilation of images uploaded to the website (I try to archive these to the tune of about 10,000 images a week – probably about 3 or 4 million images now taking up almost 500 gigabytes of storage at the moment). These are fun to make – and I hope you enjoy watching this collection of timelapses…

These short videos originated from the Holloway Bar Streaming Camera that’s watching the mining in the 2010 season. I captured two segments approximately 30 or 40 minutes long and this is the result. The first part – mining with the cat – was the last day the cat was used exclusively for this dig. The loader – used, but new to this project – arrived the next day and was quickly put to work after a pre-job service. The second video segment with the loader was taken on the first day the loader was put to work on Holloway Bar.

The images for this video came from the first webcam we installed in the Yukon. I waded through a year’s worth of images and selected one from each day as close to 9:00 am as I could. This is the result. There was no logic behind the 9:00 am choice – I’m sure other time slots would have worked well also – but there are some interesting shots (even a couple of snow plows in the “right locations” to make it look like a couple of sequential shots although they’re a day apart) and some beautiful skies. One thing is for sure – it’s easy to appreciate the long winters and short summers when you can watch the snow as part of the picture in one form or another from September until May…

Swirling fog makes for a great time-lapse video. I captured a few hours worth from one of my Terrace webcams to make this short video.