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On the 6 December 2014, 40 photographers came together to create a crowdsourced timelapse of London within the space of a single day. The result is a video entitled LapseLondon that incorporates over 35,000 individual photographs.

The project was organised by photography company


Triggertrap and credits each and every person who contributed footage for the film. Triggertrap knows the power of crowdsourcing firsthand. The company was brought to life by a Kickstarter campaign that allowed it to release its first product -- a smartphone-based camera-triggering solution. A second successful campaign allowed it to start selling a modular camera system for high-speed photography. "The crazy thing about being a photographer is that your art has a huge audience, but when you are creating, you're on your own, operating in a vacuum. I think bringing together a load of people who shoot timelapse is up there with one of the most awesome things I've ever done," Triggertrap's CEO Haje Jan Kamps told WIRED.co.uk.

The whole idea came from the fact that shooting photographs -- and time-lapses in particular -- can be a very solitary business.

This way, the photographers were all working together towards one end goal.

Through LapseLondon you can take journeys on the capital's buses and cross-river cable car. Busy shopping streets, tube platforms, markets, iconic landmarks and even a BBC newsroom are incorporated into the video. Some particularly lovely shots include the coming and going of planes against the backdrop of a sunset and the BT Tower, along with a spinning carousel.

The company's head of photography Thomas Langley describes London as "the perfect canvas for timelapse photography". "It's vibrant, busy, exciting and we've wanted to try and capture the flavour of the city for a long time and a crowdsourced timelapse gave us the perfect opportunity to do this," he said.