Your one friend has a synthesizer app on his phone and the other has a high end camera and a Vimeo Plus account - time to make a fantastic time lapse video. Ocean Sky by Alex Cherney was shot in Australia over the course of a couple years, and will rightfully take its place among the hundreds of wonderful time lapse nature videos being made every day. I wonder how much longer it’s going to take before we all start getting really sick of these videos?

The Gear Junkie has an interview with the phenomenal photographer and all-around mountain man Jimmy Chin, who shot this month’s cover of National Geographic. If you haven’t seen his cover shot it’s remarkable - Alex Honnold ropeless and standing on a small ledge on Half Dome. Check out the Gear Junkie’s interview with Chin, and then take a look at his work at National Geographic.

Losing gear is part of the perils of travel, though it’s especially painful to get a camera stolen since they’re so expensive. Now a website called Stolen Camera Finder says that it has a way to track down your lost goods. You can drag a drop on of your photos into it, and it’ll sift though the data in your photos to see if there are any other photos on photo-sharing websites that have been shot using your lost or stolen camera. Will it work? Who knows, but even if it does you might not want to know whose dirty hands your lost goods have fallen into. After all, it’s not like the site goes and beats up the guy who took it.

Do you like photography? Skiing? Women? Get all three in an excellent interview with shooter Re Wikstrom gave to Outside’s blog. Re’s work was recently featured in the World Ski and Snowboard Festival, and she donated some of her shots to the Jeff Bates Melanoma fundraiser (you can still get in on the bike auction). Check out more of Re’s work on her website.

Rex Lint put together this short video on photographer Corey Rich. It’s an inspiring story (plus there’s some nice Patagonia product placement in it).

Thanks Brian