LA BELLE ÉPOQUE

A series of day and night timelapses captured in the historic area of Montmartre, Paris in November 2023, with a few shots in and around Amsterdam Central Train Station. Shot with a Canon 6D, and a wide Rokinon 12mm f2.8 lens. Ultralight SIRUI Carbon Fiber Travel Tripod. The music is sung by my incredible talented wife Briana Nadeau.

“Near the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, during the Belle Époque, many artists lived, worked, or had studios in or around Montmartre, including Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh.”

The “street stacking” light painting effect was done with long exposure images stacked using StarStax, a program I usually use to create star trail images for night sky work for https://SkyglowProject.com.

Shot & Cut by Gavin Heffernan (https://GavinBHeffernan.com)
Music: “Pay a Sin” – Vocals by Briana Nadeau (https://BrianaNadeau.com)
Music by Adam Williams.

Full Timelapse Collection: https://vimeo.com/showcase/4863846