This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked at from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look. Henry Miller

A family wedding. A visit home. Spring break.

These are all great reasons to return to my childhood home. Being here feels like putting on a old shoe - oh so comfortable. I can't help but agree with Henry Miller: this IS the face of the earth as the Creator intend it to look.

This video offers further proof. Enjoy the eye candy!

If you've got four minutes, I'd love to give you a timelapse tour of all of the most visually stunning places California has to offer, filmed over four years, from coastline to mountains to deserts, from cities to agriculture to national parks. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hal9000 My Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyrokinetic/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/halbergman License these clips for your project on Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com/videos/halbergman-or-%22hal-bergman%22-california Magic Window Timelapse Screensaver for Macintosh: bit.ly/mwmac California is the most populated state in the United States, and the third largest. It's almost double the size of the United Kingdom and slightly larger than Japan. If it was it's own independent country (as it was briefly for a few weeks in 1846), it would have the 8th largest economy in the world by GDP. It contains the highest summit and the lowest desert in the Contiguous United States (and the second-lowest point in the world), both of which are in the same county. It's most known for movies, technology, wine, and national parks, but also grows more than a third of the vegetables consumed in the US, two-thirds of the fruits and nuts, and an unknown but presumably huge percentage of marijuana. It contains every major climatological biome except tundra. More important than those facts, to me, is that I was born and spent most of my life here. The average clip took 1-3 hours to film and another 3-10 hours to edit. Several cuts are from clips more than 24 hours long. I shot 423 clips over four years to make this, but the majority of the 67 clips ultimately used were shot in the last 12 months. The music is "Intense Rocks" by Sebastian Watzinger, licensed from Audiosocket. If you'd like some background on my process, I did an interview with Fstoppers, where I discuss technical details, cameras used, and workflow: bit.ly/1wfrWPo Timelapse slider dolly by Dynamic Perception: bit.ly/1pci4QI Most of the individual clips are available for license via Getty Images. Many of them feature in the Magic Window timelapse screensaver for Mac. Links are now at the top. (If you got this far down, thank you! I'd like to add that I'm available for hire. I specialize in still photography and timelapse photography for travel, architecture, and industry.) Full list of locations used: Alabama Hills Big Sur Bombay Beach Death Valley National Park Gilroy Inyo National Forest Jenner Joshua Tree Lake Tahoe Long Beach Los Angeles Malibu Mono Lake South Tufa Reserve Mount Shasta Napa Onyx Owens Lake Salinas San Diego San Francisco San Luis Obispo Santa Monica Sequoia National Forest Venice Weldon Yosemite National Park

Make it an amazing day!!

California Dreaming