Tag: clouds

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  • 2 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land

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    …at San Francisco Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds. Rain is shown entering the frame from left in the rain clouds over the airport as planes continue to land, moving against the rain’s direction in the frame, over the water. As with the other three in this series, the clouds are largely illuminated by city lights.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 7 frames.

  • Rain cloud looms above at sunset as the sky is enveloped in a tinged storm

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    Panning downward slowly, a slow moving rain cloud complex over a plan during dusk. Rain can be observed in the distance at the very bottom of the frame, as well as a distant tree line. The clouds range from strongly tinged pink to Halloween orange as the sunset progresses.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 12 frames.

  • 3 of 3 | On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds on lake below with boats moving

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    Looking out onto Lake Lucerne from Esel, near the peak of Mt Pilatus. Just above orographically-influenced Cumulus clouds just below, with vapor beginning to pile onto the steep surfaces and sheer face of the peak.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 15 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Altostratus clouds cloaking the sun at dusk with scattering of color

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    Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be more Cirrocumulus when shined on by the sun below the horizon. A very distant mountain of the coastline in Oregon is backlit and made to look so small by the very colorful sky above with the colors of orange, pink and red, made better by a clear, flat, and blue patch of sky for contrast.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Different cloud levels and densities in a blue-sky on the wind transforming on time

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    A clip of Cumulus clouds (the lowest), Altocumulus clouds (the middle height level), and Cirrus of various kinds, such as Cirrocumulus. An example of how clouds also can move in different directions, the cerulean blue-sky has high air quality as the smaller clouds meander around.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds.

  • 2 of 2 | Very light cloud catches the moonlight, forming an ice ring halo around it

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    Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be the right density and altitude (in this function, as a distance from the observer), to create a halo made of frozen vapor, an optical illusion.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Mid and upper-level clouds shine and fade at sunset

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    Floating past, a rapidly deteriorating Cumulus congestus (towering cloud) is absorbed by the slightly dryer air it moves into. Above, many layers of thinner clouds and medium-thick clouds also transform in the rapidly setting sun, which is out of frame at right the sky darkens, but brighter portions of clips can always be trimmed for use.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • 3 of 3 | Night skyline of Miami dwarfed under

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    … reddish-tinged clouds from city lights as they pass by over. Demonstrating the power of city lights in the night sky, long exposures show the bright illumination of passing rain clouds. These clouds are too stable or short to create lightning, but can make massive precipitation, as is nearly every day in the summer in this part of the state of Florida. Their massive size is shadowed but easily seen in the upper-right. Helicopters or light airplanes are seen flying along the skyline’s altitude.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 1 frame.