Tag: California

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  • 2 of 2 From the nearby Glacier point viewpoint…

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    …in Yosemite over a canyon valley vista with waterfall in the distance. Half Dome is seen side-on with moving shadows around it, viewed from the west under small clouds a small waterfall is also visible.

    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds -approx.

  • 3 of 3 Glowing clouds on the Sierra Nevada floating…

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    Cumulus at dusk on peaks and overhead. While the sun has set behind the mountains because of their height, actual sunset has not occurred, so the clouds’ are not brightly lit with reds. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 25 frames.

  • Winter in Yosemite over the woods and under heavy cloud

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    A three second interval is used for short timespan clips such as these. If not for the steep slopes of the valley cliffs, cloaked partly in dense winter fog, this scene could be reminiscent of many northern climates. The cerulean late afternoon sky is unobscured along much of the top third of the frame, but the clouds are moving everywhere.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 3 frames.

  • Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cloud…

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    …Clouds still lit from below. Hovering above the city (bottom-right) Sacramento. Mid-level clouds with light from below the horizon’s sunlight.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds.

  • In the midst of the clouds as the sun goes below horizon, longest

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    On a precipice with no land in sight as the fog flows below and around the POV. The sun sets below the horizon in the distance, and it is now dusk.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    2 minutes, 20 seconds.

  • Half-frozen Tioga Lake view of Mt Lyell…

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    Scene notes:

    … under some very light transforming clouds and shade. North of Yosemite Valley is the highway to connect to the other side of the state. This Tioga Pass Road is closed much of the year due to snowfall. The snowy landscape vista stretches out to Mt Lyell of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, which passes through the National Park.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 2 frames.

  • 2 of 2 Above mountains, Mt Whitney at moonrise…

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    …the night sky is seen in deep dark colors of stars. After a while the sky awakens as the bright moon just before dawn, sends pink colors captured by long exposure on Mt Whitney and surrounding peaks.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 24 frames.

  • Ascending on unique rock formations of Alabama Hills in California

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    Scene notes:

    The UAS ascends steadily over a lifeless environment of unique stone formations, with high clouds motionless in the sky. The ground shows no signs of humans, but the sky has a jet contrail pattern. Two hills seen are composed only of very large boulders that cracked into pieces after cooling as magma. The area lives on an active fault zone, and certain hills show where these flows of magma end; in the last 10 million years, these hills have dropped 11000 ft (2750 m) and were once around the height of Mt Whitney. No interval was used with this full motion clip.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 6 frames.