Tag: California

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  • Vast winter viewpoint from Inyo Mountains

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    Scene notes:

    … landscape below with Sierra Nevada range. On the Inyo range east of the Sierra Nevada, one sees deep into the range to the west, countless peaks spanning north-south. A few at right are under stratus clouds, but the large majority are Cirrus fibratus, dense enough to shade the landscape as they pass over the snowy Bristlecone pine-filled hillsides and slopes, which are some of the oldest trees.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 13 frames.

  • 1 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land at San Francisco…

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    …Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds. Continental traveling airplanes are seen landing over the bay diagonally across the frame. The bright lights of a few are visible among the other city lights, taxiing for takeoff or to their gates. In the bottom quarter of the frame the water moves, and reflects the light of the clouds, illuminated in the city’s lighting. The lower stratus clouds bring rain on the city across the water.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 18 frames.

  • 2 of 4 | Under peak color Aspen grove, medium-density clouds float by overhead and on mountains

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    The mountains of the Sierra Nevada range do not entirely catch the low moving clouds on them, which are blowing and slightly billowing and casting shadows on the snowy peaks and cliffs. Below, the peak-coloring of the Aspen grove stretches closer from left to right. With leaves of varying colors from red (afar) to orange (middle ground) and greens with yellow (close). The age of the trees may provide hints as to the varying colors.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 4 frames.

  • Panning over Desolation Wilderness landscape

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    … from viewpoint of clouds slowly shifting shadows on forest. Nimbostratus clouds impose shadows upon the wilderness scene intermittently. The foreground, a viewpoint ridge which the camera pans over, is intricately detailed with yellow flowers and stone. The protected landscape beyond is a mix of hilly forest and rocky land features of rugged terrain further away, with Mt Tallac visible in the far-distant left.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 6 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Behind trees, a small fog blanket rolls on Lake Tahoe at sunrise

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    Pines and other conifers are framing the sky on all sides of the scene in the early morning above Lake Tahoe, which is surrounded by a forest, and blanketed partially with a fog layer. The sky quickly brightens as high clouds and an airplane contrail turn all the colors of sunrise. The ground is snowy. A similar clip exists.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    38 seconds and 4 frames.

  • Mixed cloud sunset over rocky landscape and forest

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    Scene notes:

    … in wilderness under clouds where the sun is seen. An exemplar of Altocumulus Castellanus near the center of the frame. Underlit with purple sunlight filtered from smoke, these clouds tower, owing that their names are derived from castle towers. At the end of playback, the sun can be seen brilliantly going down before disappearing into night. An airplane is seen zooming past in the sky, twice, in the upper-left frame. Upper-level Cirrocumulus clouds are gold in their altitude which gives them brilliant direct sunlight to the end.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 14 frames.

  • Lenticular formation of clouds above rocky landscape, blue-sky at sunset

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    The continuation of a clip from Day. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 25 frames.

  • Lightweight clouds, blowing in the winds of steep…

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    … clifftops, dance over a lone tree. Water vapor, condensed by the extra wind as it rides over peaks. It will not behave in the way a cloud does without the sharp differences of the Earth. The snowy mountain peak has many aiguilles and towers, and the top edges are cornices and snow ridges. A large fluting spans the height of the peak to the base. At right, the fall-colored red-yellow leaves on the main tree quiver slightly in the breeze that pushes the cloud shadows slowly overhead and the landscape. The
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 20 frames.