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We must admit we’ve grown tired of time-lapse videos. You find them just about all over the web these days, and half of them not done well at all. But, every now and then one comes along that just screams of beauty and magnificence that we cannot help but share.

It took over two years for filmmakers Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill to create this Yosemite HD II Time-Lapse, the the breathtaking followup to their 2011 tribute to Yosemite National Park. It was worth the wait. Full screen, HD, headphones if you’ve got ’em. You know the drill.

It’s hard to oversell the beauty of Yosemite. Harder, still, to capture the totality of its grandeur on camera – but Yosemite HD comes awfully close. Released in January 2012 by Delehanty and Neill, the 4-minute short was not only one of the most stunning depictions of the park we’d ever seen, but one of the more captivating time-lapses we’d ever laid eyes on, full stop