Sonja Hinrichsen' 'Snow Circles' With Cedar Beauregard Turns Steamboat Into A Quilt (VIDEO)

Last month, landscape artist Sonja Hinrichsen and a team of 5 volunteers tracked a series of circles into the snow at Rabbit Ears pass in Steamboat, Colorado. The 3-hour long project might not have looked like much from the ground, but seen from above, it makes for dramatic viewing. Aerial photographs taken from local pilot Jack Dysart's Cessna reveal a snowscape that looks like an embroidered quilt, and the accompanying film by Steamboat-based filmmaker Cedar Beauregard, who mounted a camera on a remote-controlled helicopter, gets a view of the tiny people creating the elaborate pattern. Also part of the fun: that the tracks have probably disappeared by now. Check out the video below.

WATCH:

Snow Circles from Beauregard, Steamboat Aerials on Vimeo.

Comments

[kayyy]

03:57 AM on 02/26/2012

Aside from the cold I hope this was as fun as it looks. :)

[archeomoos]

02:56 AM on 02/26/2012

Awesme! One of man's (women) better projects in the outback.

[eksharris]

11:46 PM on 02/25/2012

So wonderful.

[DrKMcK1]

11:35 PM on 02/25/2012

That's amazing. How did they plan it out? Everything ran into each other perfectly. I knit and crochet and it really does look like a quilt pattern or a huge doily runner. What a creative imagination for the one who originally thought of it. The music was nicely fitted to the scene. I especially liked the way trees were centered in the circles. Lovely.

[jotwinowski]

11:30 PM on 02/25/2012

I read some of the comments and the only thing I can add is why? I gather we used up a day's worth of gas for the snowmobiles to make circles in the snow and then photograph them. Let me have a sewing machine with an embroidery attachment, some black thread and a piece of white fabric and I can create the same effect. And just to quibble, this looks like embroidery, not quilting. A quilt requires a repeating pattern to sew through the three layers.

[hellyon3too]

01:10 AM on 02/26/2012

Did you bother to read the article? Or watch the video? The circles were made by people walking, not on snowmobiles. And the article also says "...a snowscape that looks like an embroidered quilt.

Maybe you can create the same effect with a sewing machine, but not on so grand a magnitude. Oh, and a quilt does NOT require a repeating pattern.

[jotwinowski]

10:57 PM on 02/26/2012

1. >>The circles were made by people walking, not on snowmobiles.>but not on so grand a magnitude.

[jotwinowski]

11:03 PM on 02/26/2012

My response appears to have been truncated to the point of incomprehensibility. I expect people got to the site on snowmobiles, how else? As to creating the same effect, magnitude in a photograph is a matter of focus. A camera can make a 3" figurine look like a human being with proper staging. Finally, a quilt consists of 3 layers which need to be stitched together across the body of the quilt, not just the edges. The top layer by itself is not a quilt. (And yes, I know I'm quibbling. That's my mood right now.)

[Christine Garcia]

02:08 AM on 02/26/2012

Negative people like you are a big part of the problem in this country. There is more then movies, tv and the internet for entertainment and the way things are going we all may be headed back to the simple joys of life. This was a beautiful story and a nice gift to those they have shared it with.

[jotwinowski]

11:08 PM on 02/26/2012

Since I neither watch television nor movies, you're certainly not talking to me. That is usually the problem with people like you who make life judgments from a single written paragraph. (How do you like being judged on the basis of 3 1/2 lines of comment?) If you like walking around making patterns of footprints in snow, be my quest but I totally fail to understand the raptures.

[squiddypie8]

11:04 PM on 02/25/2012

Beautiful. I want to make a quilt that looks like that.

[trishamine]

10:56 PM on 02/25/2012

How beautiful that was, very relaxing.

[strawberry shortcake]

09:27 PM on 02/25/2012

NEAT, it's pretty and i can just imagine how long it took those people to do those snow circles...NOW for the BIG question.........isn't it "obvious" how the CROP circles are formed? all this stupid stuff about aliens or some other so called otherworldly form misteriously visiting this planet and leaving behind the crop circles..is just plain ridiculous!!!! Someone with alot of talent has to be doing it,it doesn't take a "rocket scientist" long to figure that out.. c'mon people, get REAL!!!

[MrNOBODYCares]

09:17 PM on 02/25/2012

I hate to cold but next time I'll go try this it looks fun :)

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[trishamine]

10:58 PM on 02/25/2012

Me too! The cold and me don't mix, I like to look at snow falling threw my window, that's as close to snow I wish to get.

[Devorah Judith]

08:06 AM on 02/26/2012

Another "me too"!

[noworriesdee]

08:51 PM on 02/25/2012

Pure serenity...

[Devorah Judith]

08:28 PM on 02/25/2012

Art comes in many forms. With the music muted this becomes a vision of serenity and quiet beauty. Bravo to the artist.

[duffy847]

06:58 PM on 02/25/2012

Breath=takingly beautiful! Looks just like an embroidered chain stitch. Use your imagination and picture colored thread......pastels for babies, bright colors.or just black on white. It is magnificent!!!

[Nazaria]

06:53 PM on 02/25/2012

Awesome! Sure bets the heck out of snow angels.

[dickn2000b]

06:50 PM on 02/25/2012

It's NOT a quilt. It looks a lot more like crap circles.

[Devorah Judith]

08:28 PM on 02/25/2012

Your juvenile sense of humor is not funny. Grow up.

[dickn2000b]

08:43 PM on 02/25/2012

Oh for Pete's sake lighten up. Are you so serious, so devoid of humor you can't appreciate a bad joke? Get a life will you?

[The Nuh Uh Chronicles]

11:34 PM on 02/25/2012

That shouldn't even be classified as a sense of humor...he wasn't funny ...period!

He was just trying to tinkle on everybody's good mood......and failed. He needs to get a life.

He needs to do "Amateur Night" at a comedy club and get booed off the stage...too bad they don't let you throw rotten tomatoes at "crappy" attempts at show business!

[The Nuh Uh Chronicles]

01:31 AM on 02/27/2012

I did get to read your comment before it was deleted by HP....here's my reply'

"It looks too much like your face - oink!

[schultziequilts]

06:40 PM on 02/25/2012

Awesome! I posted it on my Facebook page!

[kayyy]

04:04 AM on 02/26/2012

Wonderful! Now please be careful about what you post on FB there maybe intellectual property rights. FB Has been under public scrutiny lately. I hope you have copies saved. I thought It would make a great pic in a screen saver slide show.