MADISON, Wisc., (SPECTRUM NEWS)-- A Waunakee photographer is showing off his incredible skill behind the camera — and now the drone. Instagram influencer Charlie Kruschek is self-taught and just released a three-minute cinematic clip of his journeys before coronavirus hit.

The video took 30 hours to produce and the globetrotter says he did it to inspire people to see Mother Nature in a whole new way — especially as everyone social distances. 

He believes it’s important to find a creative outlet.  For this young artist, that is in now through editing his video. He says what motivates him is simple: Getting the shot.

"So I think the biggest thing is being able to capture size and a perspective that a lot of people don’t necessarily see. So I remember one shot that really sticks out for me was when I was in Iceland, one of my first days there, seeing one of the most iconic waterfalls in the world; it really captured me, so I wanted to make it my goal of capturing that perspective," Kruschek says.

The 20-year-old with a passion for meteorology and storm chasing says up until a year ago, he just shot still, aerial and landscape photos, but six months of snippets from his new drone yielded a nearly three-minute surprise: A cinematic masterpiece — all finally cobbled together in 30 hours.

"I may have only gotten there for a four-second waterfall in Iceland; I was there for two months. I may have only you know gotten two seconds of a tornado, whatever that may be, it’s just enough. So I can still have that memory and know who I was with, what the date it was...and the overall feeling of what that time that was like," he says.

Later this summer, the talent is heading to the Apostle Islands area as he makes an effort during this time of self-distancing to shoot more of Wisconsin. 

‘It’s been my big thing, trying to capture the world in a way that not the everyday eye sees and if that means staying out until two in the morning freezing myself in the middle of January or driving right through hail in the middle of June, whatever it takes, I'll go right through that whatever it takes. I’ll go for that angle because that is a memory I will never forget," he says.

Watch Kruschek's full 'A Dreamer's Log' video, here and learn more about him, here.