Exemplars of aiguille-shaped peaks that travel over a kilometer down, glaciers included. The clouds
create crepuscular (afternoon) rays from humidity and shadows. The light shines on some of the
slopes. The mountains comprise nine-tenths of the frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
6 seconds and 24 frames.
… late afternoon cast shadows on the sparing water beneath. A very strong and stochastic wind moves
the surface of the water below on Crater Lake, which covers roughly half the frame. Wizard Hat Island
is seen near top-right. Visibility is good if not for heavy lower clouds passing overhead, with the
sun peeking through to light up the foreground. .
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 24 frames.
The sky, three-quarters of the frame, is full of stars, and the high foothills that comprise the
start of the southern tip of Sierra Nevada build towards the right side. Light pollution in the
bottom left of the frame lights some thin clouds, which move slowly against the spin of the
planet.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 19 frames.
…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.
…Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds. Continental traveling airplanes are seen landing over the
bay diagonally across the frame. The bright lights of a few are visible among the other city lights,
taxiing for takeoff or to their gates. In the bottom quarter of the frame the water moves, and
reflects the light of the clouds, illuminated in the city’s lighting. The lower stratus clouds bring
rain on the city across the water.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 18 frames.
Clouds drop precipitation as snow in this valley that is the classic Yosemite experience. This clip
is the continuation of a clip from Day. Trees, appearing at first glance to be following the clouds
up the snowy slopes, cover much of the left frame. A giant monolith, partially covered in mist,
appears in the left third, indescribable. A sheer rock face on the right is acting as a blocker for
clouds. Farther away, another sheer cliff face is appearing to hold back the cloud flow, all this on
a winter landscape.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 16 frames.
Mid-level clouds float over the point of view in the night, a starry sky above the mountains, which
strongly rise on the left. A glacier of packed, icy snow resides in a distant slope near-center. The
altostratus varies in its coverage of the sky; it ebbs and flows.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 28 frames.
The continuation of another clip. The camera position and exposure has been adjusted.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 1 frame.