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Maiden Voyage

The Greeley Team is forging ahead in technology.   You may have noticed some drone work in recent movies and 4k [much larger/finer/more pixels]  images.   This was our first foray, after some testing runs, into both.  I think it’s fun, hope you do too.   Thanks Don!

Film by Don Macken
Edited by Don Macken
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You Probably Have No Idea How Fast You Are Moving 

Even though we can’t feel it and it doesn’t seem like it, and even though we talk about the sun rising and stars moving overhead, what’s really happening is the earth is moving. Fast. Our planet spins at about 1000 miles per hour, and travels through space around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour! This orbit around the sun (sometimes called a solar year) creates one year on earth.

And here’s something else we don’t usually think about: Our sun is in orbit too, through the Milky Way. The sun travels at a rate of about 500,000 miles per hour as it circles the Galactic Center. One of these orbits is called a galactic year. Of course, we’re all pulled along with the sun in this bigger orbit: planets, moons, meteors, asteroids, and comets.

Now for some perspective on distance: Just how big is our galaxy? Let’s start with the distance between the sun and the earth. This distance, a “mere” 93 million miles, is known as an astronomical unit. Astronomers use the astronomical unit as a way of measuring distances in the solar system. This rather average-sized galaxy of ours is 100,000 light-years across. (A light-year is the distance sunlight travels in a year.) Each incredibly biglight-year is about 63,241 astronomical units. So how wide is our galaxy? About 586,941,600,000,000,000 miles! No wonder it takes us 240 million years to make just one circuit around the galaxy.

But wait, there’s more: our galaxy is also moving through the universe. Our closest galactic neighbor, and the only galaxy we can see with our naked eyes, is the Andromeda Galaxy. Our Milky Way Galaxy is traveling around 270,000 miles per hour, right at it! In the distant future the two will collide, but that’s another story.

Why don’t we feel all this movement? Because we are all moving at the same speed, we don’t feel a thing. We are speed demons many times over and don’t feel it or even know it! 

by Greeley Wells

[Note: The above article appears in the SPRING 2017 edition of our local newspaper, THE APPLEGATER.   I’ve been writing an article for every edition for years now.
You can view the whole paper at www.applegater.org
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KLAMATH a film by AARON MOFFATT

KLAMATH  BY AARON MOFFATT
        Last night I had a moving experience of a new movie and new movie maker.   It was so like me and my style and my take on the universe that I was completely swept away.   The little critic angel who can always make comments about what I watch was strangely and then thankfully and then rightfully silent.   The film was magnificent.   It’s not for all as no film is.   But for education, interest, peacefulness and beauty this is a meditative movie of serene, emotive, music and images many will find wonderful.
        It takes place in the forests, meadows, rivers, mountains and coastal wilds of the Klamath Mountains in Oregon.    Also including the Rogue-Siskiyou, Shasta-Trinity, Six Rivers areas.
        The film work is exquisite with much from the air and much close and detailed.  Clouds, fogs, mist, water, snow and wind flow through landscapes of exquisite beauty and majesty.  There are breathtaking vistas of storms and cloud forms, mountains, rocks and rivers and even forest creatures and birds.   A slow camera moves into details and then wide across large spaces in moving sweeps.  Details and compositions, action and stillness blend together even going underwater as it does into the skies.  A symphony of nature.
        The classical music performed by many great orchestras with compositions and parts of compositions from Faure, Elgar, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Respighi.   These are shared with the wonderful sounds of nature and it’s creatures.
        The vocal presentation is so softly and expressively deep and meaningful, true and new.   The beautiful voice honors and describes the past, the present and the future.   It is hopeful and cautionary.  Our future is expressed with what we may and can do.
        I cannot recommend this film strongly enough.   It’s only 55 minutes long and made for a perfect evening or afternoon break in our busy days as it’s full of meaning and thought and beauty.
        Please visit Aaron’s website   https://ksfilm.org
Wishing you a wonderful experience,
Greeley

Klamath from Aaron Moffatt on Vimeo.

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Light Comes to Us 

As a nature filmmaker one of my favorite features are clouds. They catch the light, cause shadows, provide backdrops, add movement, action and even Magic to every shot.
This short video was edited by my friend Don Macken utilizing footage that I shot in the forest near my home in Southern Oregon. This was later utilized in our short film “Greeley’s Nature” which is available to view below.

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A new series- Quote Films

I am very excited to announce the beginning of a new series of videos that I will be releasing slowly over the next few months.  I call them “Quote Films” and I am sure you’ll see why.

For most of my life I’ve enjoyed poetry and other inspiring phrases and of course I love beautiful nature shots. So now, with the help of my editors, we am combining those two things to create these short films that I vey much hope you will enjoy.  We’ll release a new film every week and many of them will be these Quote films. Other shorts that we are creating will also be released in coming weeks. This is an exciting time for me because I love to share these beautiful moments of Nature with you.

Wayne W Dyer from greeley wells on Vimeo.