Tag: cloud layer

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  • 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.

  • Svalbarð looking west in northern Iceland over water with clouds on hills in distance

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    A small ship is seen in the water steaming out to see late in the clip. Throughout, two layers of clouds. While fog rolls on the distant foothills of a mountain, the shadows break through where the upper layer gives way to sun. Time-lapse length (at 30 fps): 18 seconds and 5 frames.

  • High above clouds and volcanic landscapes

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    … rolling cumuliform clouds into beyond. The clouds far below show signs of weak convection. The volcanic landscape is silhouetted, sloping slightly for a distance before dropping off. The stratus layer below flows slowly towards the right, while the lifting air currents run counter for their cycle above the layer below.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    29 seconds and 55 frames.

  • Marine layer over hills that are blanketing

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    … the forest above Mill Valley and on Mt Tamalpais. Similar at a first glance to a creek in long exposures, fog flowing central of frame takes the shapes of running water, while remaining gaseous vapor. The layer that came in from the ocean runs far into the horizon. Even very far away on the horizon, headlands rise slightly above the stratus. Playback length at 30 fps: 25 seconds.

  • 1 of 2 | Behind stones in the valley, bright fog flows below on the dark woods

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    Oranges like Tacao and Harvest Gold turn into Purples like Ferra as the sunsets, and the fog appears to move like a liquid solid – while being entirely vapor.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    32 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Brightly flowing eye-level fog layer just beyond some trees, rolling dramatically

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    A single ridge of fog bisects this stratus layer of fog beyond with no foreground. Cloud-fog the color of Butterscotch on their tops where the hits them, and pouring steadily towards the left, as if it’s a river about to turn into a drop and become a waterfall.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 11 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Glowing fog clouds behind a lone atlas cedar tree on a high hill overlook

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    Scene notes:

    Just around sunset when the light is most orange, the lone atlas cedar is midway to the fog, which seems to be rising just behind these trees. There is a wide vista of bright fog stretching miles out, and the hill that spans the valley below creates a shadow on the fog further away, miles out. It’s quite windy, apparent from the speed of the water vapor just beyond.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    23 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Atlas Cedar before fog at sunset under pink sky

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    Scene notes:

    The unique shape of an Atlas cedar is silhouetted against the brighter layers of upper-level clouds. Slower clips like these are more useful relaxation, biofeedback, etc. In the lower four tenths of the frame a slowly roiling fog bank is pinkish from ambient light. A longer exposure speed is used relative to other clips.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    19 seconds and 25 frames.