Coutts Chelsea Flower Show Window Installation

Coutts partnered with eye-care charity SeeAbility to raise awareness of eye health and the impact of sight loss through sponsorship of its first garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The garden, designed by Chelsea first-timer Darren Hawkes, uses structure within the garden to give visitors to the Show an impression of what it is like to have four different sight conditions – cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. The window display took over 6 hours to install and so made a perfect opportunity to make a time-lapse movie. Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When played at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing. For example, in this instance an image of a scene was captured once every second, then played back at 24 frames per second. The result is an apparent 24-times speed increase. You can see the finished result here.

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