67 days of waiting, watching and wondering if it would actually happen. This is still one of the best projects we’ve done. Our Gandalf’s Staff tree portrait was an epic battle of willpower over the weather.

As you can see in the video our camera system spans a 60m gap between two giant trees. Then a secondary pulley system lets us raise and lower the camera array the entire vertical height of the tree. Placing this system in the exact location then required a third line to redirect the placement just 1.5 meters uphill. All up it took us 2 weeks to get just the camera system to drop down out of the sky and sit perfectly in the exact location we needed it to.

Then we waited for the perfect wind, fog and sunrise conditions to create something truly exceptional.