Next, he figured the New Year's weekend and these three games would take about 80 hours, starting 30-minutes before fans arrived for Friday's Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, until about an hour after UGA senior quarterback D.J. Shockley left the field following Monday night’s Nokia Sugar Bowl.

Tulis rigged a remote-mounted Nikon D2H camera and secured it to a metal beam on the “B-Ring” catwalk about 300-feet above the Dome’s playing field near the East end zone. The camera was clamped onto a rail, wrapped with flexible safety wire, then taped with duct tape to make sure it stayed put and didn’t pose a threat to any player or fan. One detail he missed was the fact the metal catwalk flexes and moves slightly with the pyrotechnics explosions that were planned. If you study the movie really closely, you can see the camera moved a little bit but was corrected after the Falcons game.

The camera was fitted with a full frame 15m Nikon fisheye lens and was programmed to fire one frame every 4.5 minutes, 1,075 still images in all, which works out to about 13 pictures per hour. This time-elapsed video runs at 8 frames per second, every second of video equals 36 minutes of real time.

So, for the more than 200,000 fans who witnessed these six football teams, for the hundreds of behind-the-scenes Georgia Dome workers who painted the field three times, emptied hundreds of trash cans and swept the field in between games, we sure hope you enjoy this little photo experiment!

Many thanks to several AJC Photo Staff members who offered advice and internet specialist Gina Setser with ajc.com, who ironed out the technical details.

David Tulis/AJC Sports Photo Editor

Produced by Gina Setser and Bryan Perry