The passing of time, caught in a single photo | Stephen Wilkes 

I didn't know George Clooney was so passionate about taking pictures

Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me.

*I don't think this qualifies invoking Einstein...*

So basicly photo merging in Photoshop. It has been done many times before. I can't see how this is revolutionary. But it does look amazing, I must admit.

Great photography. Could have done without the cheesy sales pitch.

man this guy must love photoshop

The guy's just telling his story. It's totally fine.

"The act of sharing has suddenly become more important than the experience itself" This sentence perfeclt embodies the major problem I have with society today

Too bad he didn't name it From Dusk Till Dawn.

Nice idea and pictures, but the talk is (quite) a bit pretentious. 8:21 and why are people clapping?

I, I did, I have, mine, my work, my photo, my, my, my... ego level over 9000

So many people in the comments that felt their egos being hurt by some random guy in a video. But it's about the guy in the video having a huge ego, not them, no-no...

"The act of sharing has suddenly become more important than the experience itself"

Thank You Stephen Wilkes ... for being a, " ... relentless collector of magical moments." Beautiful! Love & Peace to All

It is good to see images of such high technical and aesthetic quality built on a an equally strong and original conceptual foundation, this is "Art".

I've been a follower and fan of Wilkes for a little over a year. His passion for history and humanity mirrors my own and makes me love him even more!

Stephen, your work is beautiful.

Absolutely amazing and what a great speaker. He seems a sensitive soul.

What a beautiful piece of art ! It took so much efforts to create this art. And all I can see in the comments that people are critisizing him for how he is boasting about it . C'mon. Be a sport and appreciate his work . Finding Negativity in everything is the easiest thing

So this guy just Photoshops a days worth of images together? It's cool and all and I see he is passionate about it, but why is this any different from other photography?

"The act of sharing has suddenly become more important than the experience itself." So says the man that makes his presentation more about himself his experience.

Amazing photos! well done! 👍

This is quite amazing!

I kinda like his more hands on approach with real photographs and gluing them together more, he should do more of that.

Beautiful Work!! Very Inspiring!!!

amazing, magical photos .. great marriage between technology and concept and message to humanity

Thank you so much!

Obsessed with this!

Brilliant, surreal, intriguing...thanks for sharing.

Wonderful works ...

amazing. love the way the photographs look

This was beautiful.

Just wonderful.

he looks really patient in terms of working on his concept photos, waiting a whole day to capture the photos which he need for his puzzle to combine, also the collage from 250 images, damn, he really enjoys it 100%

Gave me some perspective! Great work!

Stunning Photography

Damn dude, tough crowd.

WOW! Love this!!

I can't possibly articulate the amount I love this.

WoWwww ! Amazing!

great work!

unbelievably beautiful

INCREDIBLE! GREAT JOB TED!

If you don't understand why this is so profound please just don't leave comments :) I promise, it's deeper than you understand. Beautiful, loved this and sharing it with some people that will be fascinated as well

Precious pictures.... He's so cool

I love the Serengeti picture.

The message at the end is great!

I once wanted to test the long exposure on my new camera so I put it on the bench in front of some building at night and that changed my life in a way that I could never imagine. I figured that even though the passing of time and the time itself depends on the speed of the observer relative to the object, the picture itself happened to be of a poor quality because it was a cheap camera. Thank you.

That last picture is a amazing! Especially in a time like this, I think if we are to survive we need to learn to share! I've always given what I could but the majority in this world have a fear of doing the same.

Nice work..

Seems like one can't create something without comparing it to Einstein and choking on ones own ego.

This was so inspiring!!

1,800 photos to make one And still one of Hansel Adams' photos stand out more.

I don't understand why comments are so focused on his ego etc. You have to hand it to him. He created some amazing pictures and explained how he did it.

ASTONISHING

The photo at 1:27 is breathtaking. I would pay an violent amount of money for it

Thank you

So many naysayers on this channel it's sickening

act of sharing has become more important than the experience itself ,, well said ..

This revolutionary guy can trick people who have not contact with photography and Photoshop but not those who are photographers. All what he does is choosing the panorama settings, standing whole day in a crane and blend pics together on Photoshop. Why is he talking about Einstein's parallel universes and wormholes? uuhm ok..

Dude fuckin adores himself

wonderful ❤

Wow just wow

One of those art TED talks that are actually novel (to most) and interesting.

amazing...i would LOOOOOOVE his job!!!

So interesting

Wow, amazing!

amazing

My dream is to make this possible for the city I currently reside in. Thank you for reaffirming the ability is there to turn the dream into reality.

Loved the last part about animals!

Neat!

Es como si hubiera fotografiado la experiencia de haber estado ahí, reduciéndola quizá en cuanto a significado pero aumentando su amplitud. Me recuerda a lo que los arquitectos y urbanistas visualizamos al proyectar: todo lo que puede pasar en el lugar. Como los cuadros del renacimiento que pintorescamente incluían muy diversas situaciones al mismo tiempo. Una condensación objetiva de momentos, para inspeccionarse, más que observarse, detenidamente en vivo pedazo a pedazo en una impresión de piso a techo y hacerse una impresión propia de haber estado ahí.

The oval at OSU would be a pretty cool place to do this. With the city to the south, high street to the east and library to the west the transition would be awesome.

Awesome

pretty cool

Holy it look nice :D

Does he need to be there to photograph theese pictures? He could set something up to shoot at certain times where he would guess people do something

I live there

I wonder how many times he rehearsed this speech to keep from crying in the middle of it.

"But what if you could capture more than 1 moment in a photograph!?" 0:30 - You CAN, becuse you DO, ever heard of the speed of light? Every photograph lies, it is not at all the capturing of one moment, especially when the distance contained within the photo grows. As the distance between lens and subject increases, the time light takes to travel to get to the lens gets longer, and varies between distances. The picture of the people in front of the canyons there - they are nearer to the camera and so are closer to the present that the camera experiences. A fly passing very close to the lens in this shot would be far nearer to capturing the present. Those distant canyons though, just like stars, are a snapshot of the past, before the photograph was taken. Every photograph is a snapshot of many different times, not one present moment. Does this man understand the speed of light? This guy is an artist and not s scientist, yet he keeps invoking Einstein and Spacetime and doodling on diagrams meant to represent wormholes...so much Pseudoscience in one video. Stoppit! The guy needs to do some serious science reading.

lol the "time vector"

Nice.

DON'T JUDGE HIM IDJITS!!! what i don't understand is why people are hating this person? Yes he is mentioning himself alot but that is because why would someone not mention that this amazing work is done by themself..plus the people who are saying that he's being egoistic should know that alot of people are like that one way or another and not all people can be saint-ish. Also this is not a simple photoshop.If your saying that "oh he just simply photoshoped all the pics together" then know this that simple photoshop can NOT blend into one another.And from ehat he is telling,he had to be there at the SAME place for more than 8 hours..most of you can even stand for more than an hour or so unless it's at a place ehich has sale or somewhere where you can eat.. SO DONT JUDGE..

It is quite remarkable, and I even see the justifications in relativity, but I think the attempt to correlate or introduce a theoretical framework to something so simple as a dynamic moment does it disservice and devalues it. This is one of those things where you just have to be humble and say "look."

man he is unbelievable 😲😲😲

This guy reminds me the joke: Edison is dead, Einstein passed as well. We remain less and less, humble geniuses.

I have seen national geographic specials where animals kill each other around the watering hole, they don't seem to understand that they should be sharing the water. This presenter must have seen some far more enlightened animals than the ones I saw. Regardless, those pictures are really cool.

I was waiting for him to say, "I'm not photographer, I'm an artist and people are my brushes and the world is my canvas" Blehh

"exploring space time continuum (4D) with a 2D still photography" - you better be my physics prof so I can take photo all day

I think that it was very fitting for the Inception billboard in the Time Square picture

Its cool.

"New Yawhk is so great"

Watch this with the sound off

Nice

How about you go deeper into the space time continuum and explore the wonders of levels and curves in photoshop 1:48

Some photographers are like DJs. I guess you know what I mean.

Interesting but I prefer the Gregory Crewdson type of large scale photography. I like the watering hole picture even though it's more like a painting.

nice

Time and motion are different things. but nevertheless beautiful work! thank you

Neat idea, but why make some of the people in the photos look blurry, it kind of looks crappy.