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Scene notes:
Some of the biggest shield volcanoes on Earth created the Hawaiian island chain, which are completely
separate from the main continental plates which shape so much of the rest of our world. As such, it seems
fitting for Hawaiian to be an exotic and often otherworldly place. For being so new, the islands are,
mostly, so green. The verdant landscapes are covered in jungle all the way to their peaks where the
cliffs are nearly sheer. The dense woods are home to so many fruiting plants like mango, tart guava
berries and sweet pineapple grown for millennia by the indigenous people. With clouds flowing and
appearing to get ‘tripped up’ by this peak near center-frame, fog joins the cloud and vice versa, with no
clear boundary between. Every visible air current from the orographic lift effect can be seen on the
outer cloud.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds.