# Seasons time-lapse - the foundations

DevFeed: [Seasons time-lapse - the foundations](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/seasons-time-lapse-the-foundations-18925.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.frankel.ch/seasons-time-lapse/1/>)

Author: Nicolas Fränkel

Published: 2026-05-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Nicolas Fränkel](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nicolas-frankel.md>)

Topics: [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [OpenCV](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opencv.md>), [Vibe coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vibe-coding.md>), [Inference](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference.md>)

Tags: [art](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/art.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [photos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/photos.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time.md>), [time-lapse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/time-lapse.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>)

## AI overview

This article introduces a multi-part retrospective on building a seasons time-lapse video from photographs taken over several years. It describes using an LLM-assisted workflow, choosing Python, and designing a typed, tested image-processing pipeline that inventories, filters, aligns, and orders photos.

## Source excerpt

I live close to nature. I regularly go for a run in the countryside. Over several years, during my runs, I've taken pictures from the same position, always roughly the same angle. I had a vague idea in the back of my mind, as an 'artistic' project. One day, I'd turn those photos into a time-lapse video, one that would show the passage of seasons across a single place. Spoiler, here's the work in progress: However, I knew that this project would take ages.