Day Timelapse

  • Vancouver, cityscape Canada under clouds

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    Slowly panning on distant mountain background with Mt Seymour mountain. North of Vancouver, the view is under building lower-level clouds. In the lower valley behind some trees, downtown Vancouver can be seen, as can a rotating construction crane, far in the distance at lower-right. A three second interval, the sky is about one tenth blue at times. Significant uplift from wind on Mt Seymour drives these clouds. This is called the orographic effect.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 14 frames.

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  • 2 of 2 | Morning congestus cloud seems to blossom…

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    … in daylight heating above distant trees. Birth of a Cumulonimbus, a rising congestus carrying enough moisture to darken and sprout rain while it grows nearer. This exemplar of a congestus, a towering Cumulus cloud that has not become a Nimbus, reaches higher and higher into the sky until the day has become cloudy with a high chance of precipitation. Often other low stratus clouds obscure clouds like this, but they are quite common.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    23 seconds and 1 frame..

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  • Clouds and shadows on distant mountain background…

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    …under clouds and shadows. Over the continental divide in Colorado, mountains deep in natural snow are unmarred by signs of society, and range from big gradual slopes to the sharpest, rocky peaks near center-frame. The upper slopes, a quarter of the frame, is snowy, and are shaded by the clouds overhead which are moving towards-camera but without momentum.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 18 frames.

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  • Cumulus nearby Bridalveil Falls viewpoint, Yosemite…

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    …National Park. A famous view over a canyon valley vista with waterfall in the afternoon 1 of 2. Above the side-road parking lot, overlooking Yosemite Valley on a perfectly fifty percent cloudy day there is a POV. High up on a trail away from the tour buses, a maintained path leads straight up the hill face, warm and dry ground on this day. these cumulus meander in the general direction of the wind, their shadows moving along the greenery and granite of these steep cliff faces and arched domes in the distance, Half Dome, still with the bits of snowy outcrops on its very top.

    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    20 seconds and 27 frames.

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  • Afternoon on Yosemite Valley snowy river and clouds…

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    … orographically building on cliffs above. Snow falling in Yosemite Valley looking southwest, in an opening by the river. The snow covers the ground; trees loom on the left before the cliffs which have clouds piling up and past the sheer face of rock. The clouds also pour over the right-side monolith, the sun behind them, and in between the rapid vapors are patches of open sky. Farther out are more cliffs under the same majestic clouds. Slightly higher than the low clouds are other thinner clouds that roam in the opposing direction against the deep blue.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 18 frames.

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  • Lower clouds hurriedly move to left and away from POV

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    An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    37 seconds and 4 frames.

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  • 1 of 5 | Mixed levels of clouds transforming overhead in blue sky

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    Scene notes:

    An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 29 frames.

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  • 1 of 2 Morning congestus cloud seems to blossom in daylight heating above distant trees

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    Scene notes:

    … in daylight heating above distant trees. A growing, towering Cumulus before a wider stratus cloud that is far greater in volume. Stratus clouds like these may have formed initially from ground heating. Such smaller rain clouds may spread out to turn into a layer (a stratus) instead of being pushed along with a surviving core to regenerate. In these local pockets of rising air, the humidity around the cloud condenses into visibility.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 22 frames.

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