Dawn and Dusk Timelapse Archives - Page 10 of 27

Sunrise over Grand Canyon with vibrant mixed clouds changing at dawn

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The sunrise is displayed on Grand Canyon, light slowly brightening. The clouds above in the shifting sunlight transform wildly in the new light, and then gradually lose previous semblance of color. Instead of being lit from below, the clouds above are lit from above shortly after dawn. The desert canyon vista that stretches many miles is eventually illuminated like any other day.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
50 seconds and 4 frames.

Behind one cloud, the sun sets in a gold humid sky

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A slower time-lapse with a one second interval used. The sun moves down in the highly humid sky, which is glowing from the sun’s radiant intensity. When the sun moves below the horizon and frame, the few lingering distant clouds remain on the very stable air with almost no wind.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
53 seconds.

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Mt Shasta wide facing east at sunset under pinkish…

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… and blue sky, facing east at sunset to Mt Shasta. Here a low-level cloud strand streak off the summit, and mid-level altostratus clouds catch the colorful sunset light. The mountain (lower left) is snow-covered and stands beyond a foothill of Manzanita bushes and shrubs, as well as distant evergreen Conifers.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
43 seconds and 2 frames.

Time-lapse of geysers at sunrise, pinkish in morning light above a river

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Active geysers vents huge amounts of water vapor in the morning sky next to a flowing river. The plume ranges from bright pink to gold and ranges in brightness due to a cloud off-camera blocking the light momentarily.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
50 seconds and 12 frames.

Cloudy, facing west at sunrise light shifts on mountains, slow moving light

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An example of a partly sunny sunrise. The morning dawn sheds light on the mountain range, illuminating it in filtered sunlight, but halfway through the clouds have moved in between mountain and sun. Shadows of the clouds move in. Above and to the west, more clouds, a system extending so far off westward it is still night on earth where it reaches.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 2 frames.

Crater Lake early morning in the winter with the wind on water below moving

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Winter on Crater Lake: the snow covering the landscape is fresh. The vast lake is not entirely in the shadows of the clouds, as a break in the layer of thick low-level cover reveals light on the lake. The turbulent winds blow on the water, making their marks on the surface as they travel, along with the shadows. Blue sky patches are slowly covered by dawn clouds, which clearly precipitate on the opposing side of the caldera, near Wizard Hat Island. The ridge that comprises the crater’s rim, a drop of hundreds of feet, is a winter forest.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
43 seconds and 12 frames.

Vibrant alpenglow fades behind mountains of Jasper at sunset with snowy cliffs

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The mountain range is bathed in alpenglow, pink ambient lighting. High clouds provide the color, minutes after sunset in the winter. The mountain range is expansive in height and width, and is also defined by striated rock steps, cirques, flutings, fallen seracs, crags, long cornices, ice walls, and summits. The range at right has ice and snow fields as well as rock steps and an aret’e peak. The wide sky composes roughly two thirds of the frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 19 frames.

Very slow light shaft moving toward the view on top Bryce Canyon

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On an overlook at Bryce Canyon in winter. A low-level stratus layer slowly gives way to light. Similar to another clip with more lighting, the snow begins to brighten near the end of the clip. The lowlands glow in the sun’s radiant intensity. This means they both absorb some of the light and emit it in all directions.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
44 seconds and 2 frames.