Given the long hours spent staring into the sky and sun, one look through the days and nights compressed into his stunning timelapse film Welcome to Doha, the director of the project could coin an industry-standard idiom: Michael Shainblum has a lot of time in his hands. See for yourself: 

And if all the world’s a stage, consider these Welcome to Doha behind-the-scenes images and stills your “set photos”:

When he’s not wrangling an entire desert metropolis into timelapse films, Michael Shainblum is a photographer in Santa Barbara. We previously featured his work in a featured documentary. 

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