Tag: canyon

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  • Flying over burned trees to distant waterfall…

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    …as the shadows rise late in the day on mountain cliffs. This UAS clip with a three second interval flies onto quickly rising shadows from the steep cliffs. Much of the forest is burned, flying under below, the trees recently browned and scorched from the heat where the forest once was alive. Centered is a medium-sized waterfall and creek, which the camera flies to. A blue-sky has a few receding mid-level clouds. The wilderness area has sheer cliffs of several hundred feet. The terrain is mostly without soil and only stone with some winter snow still on the upper ridge in one area.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 21 frames.

  • From Yosemite Valley, light lower-level clouds…

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    cast shadows on the trees and meadow below. From within the park valley, Half Dome looms above the trees on the right-side of the frame. An imposing monolith rises on the opposing side, this forms a section of canyon with ninety-degree cliffs on both sides and a river in between them. Very light passing fluffy clouds meander in the cerulean blue sky. Not a long way behind the trees the valley turns in to Tenaya Canyon.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    33 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Flight over jungle canyon as clouds flow smoothly…

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    … on mountainous coast casting shadows that move by on the canyon floor and walls. Under an azure sky filled with low-level clouds, the UAS moves through the Hawaiian canyon outside of Waimea National park. The jungle gives way to sheer cliff face and is seen below with a creek moving through the canyon that it carved. Interval: three seconds. Movement: three to four feet per second in real-time.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 26 frames.

  • From the nearby Glacier Point viewpoint in Yosemite…

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    …over a canyon valley vista with waterfall in the afternoon. As the sun sets in the afternoon, the shadows slowly rise, with a few cloud shadow casts moving along the view below. A massive waterfall is dwarfed by a cone shaped peak with some snow in the frame’s center. Three trees in the foreground are silhouetted. The sun still shines on the Yosemite vista, a forest of partly burned evergreens among the cliffs of the frame’s left side. In the top half, a low cloud billows upward as it also disintegrates.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    25 seconds and 4 frames.

  • Sandstone monoliths under fast clouds which cast moving shade

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    Panning to the right over a red rock canyon, with low clouds of low-density float and meandering overhead, shadows quickly passing through the canyon floor and the large white boulder in the foreground (near clip end).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 6 frames.

  • 1 of 2 On Waimeia Canyon, low clouds flow smoothly…

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    …on jungle and volcanic landscape below. So many cliffs, Waimeia Canyon is a park which has a past as a volcano. It is scientifically shown to be the oldest of the islands of Hawaii, and ‘only a few’ million years ago there were many chambers of magma that collapsed into thin lava flows in the west side and thick flows in the east, and constantly erupting basalt continued to build many of the cliffs. As time went on, the rock decomposed enough from frequent rain to create soils for a jungle to grow. The original plant species that seeded today’s ecosystem floated in from storms that were taken from their birth islands over millennia. Here, the clouds that carried this rain are building and meandering, as they so often have throughout all the planet’s more recent time. Interval: 3 seconds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • Slower, small Cumulus clouds at winter at Grand Canyon

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    A winter landscape at Grand Canyon facing north from South Rim, with light, fluffy clouds. Along the vista and foreground, the shadows of the clouds move steadily along the scene. The north side of the canyon has a blanket of snow on the rim, which is mostly under very low vapor cover.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    20 seconds and 11 frames.

  • With Needles district far off on horizon, Canyonlands under lighter cloud shade

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    Towers, breches, and gendarmes are French mountaineering words to describe mountains but the names are apt for the extremely far away rock formations.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 13 frames.