LakeWatch Media Studio

Recordings from our ever-changing lake

We've been at the lake since 2013. It never ceases to amaze as it changes with the weather and the seasons. Often a war zone, always fascinating and a continual source of enjoyment and amazement and recorded through trail cameras, time lapses, photographs and 360° panoramas.

Latest from the lake

Recent footage and views, ready to explore.

Latest trailcam footage

New wildlife work and finished LakeWatch edits.

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Latest time lapse

Swans and ducks on an icy lake.

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Latest 360° panorama

Open the immersive low-level view over Lake 75.

Open panorama →

Explore LakeWatch

Each collection grows from finished exports made in LakeWatch Media Studio.

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Trail cams

Wildlife activity from around the lake. Search by species and other tags.

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Time lapses

Weather, water, clouds, lake-life all in changing light.

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Panoramas

Immersive 360-degree views from around the lake and beyond.

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Photos

A selection of photo albums, viewable as slideshows and full-screen photos.

How did we create this?

LakeWatch Media Studio is the local desktop workshop behind the archive.

Birds who do laundry together, stay together.

News from the lake

It's been a hot summer and whilst that might be good for the solar panels and battery storage of electricity, it's sure not so good for the vegetation, wildlife, and lake levels.

The grass is like scorched earth. The weed level is high in the lake and the water level is 30 cm down from the normal winter levels. This is not unusual for this time of year. Maybe a little bit more than normal.

Fabulous to see a barn owl around the southern part of the lake often during the day and the otter and its young keep popping up from time to time in various places.

An old Wheatley trailer we rebuilt.

About LakeWatch

Living on a lake is fascinating all year round: changing scenery, shifting views and extraordinary wildlife activity. Here are the recordings of it all.

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Infographic of the software we created

LakeWatch Media Studio

My home-built, AI-assisted software allows me to organise, tag, map, merge and caption media before choosing what to share on this site.

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One of the screens in the new software

Recent developments

It's all go, go, go here and I've been working like a heathen to build the LakeWatch Media Studio, which allows us to bring all this media to you. It's still very much a work in progress.