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Ojai’s Grammy-Award Artists Collaborate on “American Time Lapse” Music Video

On America’s birthday, it’s important to take a few moments to appreciate the splendor of this beautiful country. With that in mind, a couple of Ojai’s media producers took to the studio, to create a little patriotic inspiration for the everyday American to “America the Beautiful.” They utilized time-lapse photography, videography, and one of America’s classic tunes played by one of Ojai’s most highly-revered musicians.

For July 4th, Grammy award-winning Roger Kellaway and photographer Joe Sohm collaborated to create a music video celebrating the natural beauty of America and the people who live here, in “American Time Lapse.” Set to Katherine Lee Bates’ timeless “America the Beautiful,” the video is edited by MTV veteran Rick Vaughn. The following video features high definition footage from all across America, for your viewing pleasure.

“American Time Lapse” featuring videography by Joe Sohm and Roger Kellaway playing “America the Beautiful”

This video marks the premiere of Joe Sohm exploring Time-Lapse Motion footage shot. For those of you familiar with Joe Sohm’s photographs, you’ll note that time lapse is a departure from the norm for the artist.

May we all discover new talents in the land of liberty, on our pursuit of happiness. To view this video on Youtube, click here.

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JOSEPH SOHM is an American history teacher turned photo-historian. Over 30 years, he photographed the 50 states and has published his images more than 50,000 times in such publications as National Geographic, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, as well as on CNN, ABC, PBS and MSNBC. You may contact Joe Sohm for further information, please click here. To read more about Joe Sohm and to view his online portfolio, click here.

ROGER KELLAWAY – Grammy Award winner and Academy Award-nominated Pianist/Composer, has recorded more than two hundred and fifty albums. He’s worked with everyone from Ellington to Elvis, Carmen McCrae to Barbra Streisand, and Quincy Jones to Yo-Yo Ma. You can read more about Mr. Kellaway on his website by clicking here.