NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. –
If you ask Yi Zhao why he’s been pointing his camera at the sky for so long, his answer will be simple.
“It’s just my hobby,” Yi laughs.
But taking one picture every minute for three hours is proving to be far more substantial than that.
“You kind of see everything come alive,” Yi smiles.
Before he shows us the timelapse video he’s making, Yi tells us some of the other things he’s brought to life.
“Because I’m doing computer animation,” he explains.
Before he retired, Yi worked on more than 30 movies and TV shows from ‘Hotel Transylvania’ to the Oscar-winning Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
“This is all connected to my career,” Yi points to his camera.
Except, instead of telling fictional stories on screen, Yi is now documenting a very real adventure unfolding around all of us, all the time.
“It‘s exciting,” Li laughs and points up to the movement in the sky. “To see everything alive.”
When he’s not capturing the drama …