Tag: Canyonlands

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  • Rolling clouds over Canyonland red stone formations mid-day

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    A diagonally-oriented cloud formation stretches across the frame as higher clouds also meander overhead. On the landscape, a turret-shaped boulder and other oddly shaped formations (right). Playback length (at 30 fps): 4 seconds and 22 frames.

  • Becoming sunnier in brief over wet Canyonlands landscape

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    The continuation of clip #197. The camera’s position and orientation has been changed.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    4 seconds and 14 frames.

  • Puddle on stone of Canyonlands in Needles District reflects the clouds overhead

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    Reflections of the sky on the water of a puddle in some of the most varied rock formations in the country. A sawtooth and sawback ridge of red stone is visible in the distance, while in the middle distance, boulders lay on rocks (left).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 14 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.

  • Canyonlands late day shadows of mostly sky’s high clouds creating majestic light

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    Dual layers of clouds over the Canyonlands, Needle District. Brief crepuscular rays are visible as one second shows the landscape in the light. The overhead stratus layer darkens the sky.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Over Canyonlands viewpoint, the moon slowly

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    …sets with Cirrus clouds moving overhead. Cirrus clouds, a thin layer of water 40,000 or so feet in the sky, pass quickly by with motion-blur due to the long exposure, which allows the illumination of the moon to be magnified on the desert vista below. Since it is so far below, the Canyonlands view stretches a vast distance, and the many stars of the night sky move as the Earth spins, and the moon with it, towards the horizon and out of the clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 11 frames.

  • Inside Canyonlands, Needle District, midday 2 of 3

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    The continuation of another clip.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds.

  • Inside Canyonlands, Needle District, midday 1 of 3

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    Middle of the day, mixed clouds (upper level stratus and low cumulus near the red canyon walls).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds.