Timelapse work can occur at any time of the day. This capture is a great example. The first pile cap concrete pour of the Cancer Research Institute project required 52 concrete trucks to fill the job. Moving that many trucks through daytime Adelaide traffic would be problematic, so the pour commenced at 1am. If being awake all night to capture the pour wasn’t challenging enough, this capture – like most industrial captures – comes with no script. Industrial timelapse photographers have absolutely no control over the events before their camera. Nobody can tell them exactly when things will happen. And there’s no control over the lighting or environmental conditions. Pretty much every challenge a photographer can be presented with at a shoot will happen in a capture like this one. The only defence against the chaos is to shoot lots of frames and have multiple cameras covering the angles. Photographically speaking, it’s like juggling kittens, so it’s all the more sweeter when the elements come together poetically to tell a visual story as nicely as does this one.