Tag: blues

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 2 of 2 Light shafts created by taller altocumulus…

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    …mid-level clouds at sunrise. UAS hovering at altitude at dawn. Altocumulus Castellanus are ideal clouds for creating light rays that persist. First, their presence in the sky indicates moisture at the medium levels. As droplets glow in the sunlight, areas of thicker cloud create the shade necessary for the ‘light ray’ to show with definition. Since Castellanus clouds have these small patches of thick density, stark sunbeams are cast toward the camera’s general point of view.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10:25.

  • 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.

  • 1 of 2 light shafts created by taller altocumulus mid-level clouds at sunrise

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    Night in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney, the arch is silhouetted by a starry night.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 18 frames.

  • Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline

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    A nearly five second clip of a sun setting far in the distant hills behind a city’s skyline. A highway is seen with traffic moving on it far into the shaded urban landscape below, complete with the UC Davis Health Center and hospital, traffic light quickly alternating traffic flow. The UAS captures two thirds of the sky in the upper frame. Behind clouds, the shadows demonstrate a takeover of the sky, where the sunlight once glowed on the lower fringes of these mid-level clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    04 seconds and 27 frames

  • Hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline…

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    …under cirrus, cirro-cumulus after sunset, flowing high elevation clouds. At these elevations, clouds are formed with tiny frozen crystals. As the movement is demonstrated in the one most aesthetically pleasing cloud, there is a flowing that is unique to the temperature of the cloud, highlighted with beautiful pinks. Sunsets like these where the sky illuminates clouds ‘from below’ prove the Earth is a sphere and not flat. The sunlight would be abruptly blocked by a sudden end to the Earth’s crust if it ended somewhere in the ocean. Instead, the light goes through more atmosphere the higher it reaches into the sky, until the sun sets from the cloud’s perspective as well.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 25 frames.