Tag: Colorado

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  • Arrowleaf Balsomroot on a meadow before red rock…

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    Rock formations under light midday clouds flowing overhead. Sandstone spires stand tall into the sky looking down from afar on yellow flowering Arrowleaf Balsomroot plants all around the foreground. The meadow comprises half the frame, and a hill rises green to change into the red ground and shrubs into formations of pure stone.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Over red rocks and foothills of Colorado, a storm…

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    …builds in the early day’s blue sky. A rock feature of sharp relief on the far left of the frame borders the foothills of the mountains, where Pike’s Peak is fully cloaked in growing lower clouds. A hazy morning near noon, the near landscape is cultivated greenery and roadways with signs of people walking around. The far view shows green forests and hills spanning into a cloudy horizon in Colorado.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • 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.

  • Virga, evaporating rain, clouds on hills at sunset

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    Bright Cantaloupe highlights in the bright precipitation of these stratus clouds, and Halloween orange colors on the fading rain at right of the frame. Silhouetted bare ridges in the lower quarter, under these clouds that darken in as time progresses, the open sky a perfect Mid-blue.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 15 frames.

  • Rocky Mountain National Park alpine meadow clouds 2 of 2

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    Rocky Mountain National Park on a partly cloudy day looking east from a viewpoint with towering clouds just off in the distance, their shadows quickly traversing the landscape as it becomes cloudier.

    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    20 seconds.

  • Rocky Mountain National Park alpine meadow clouds 1 of 2

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    Motion controlled tripod in Rocky Mountain National Park on a partly cloudy day looking east, then south from a viewpoint.

  • Lowest density clouds slowly floating over red rock hills and flower field

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    The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 21 frames.

  • On distant Colorado peaks and valleys roll shadows of the building clouds

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    Low clouds are attempting to build on the Grand Tetons in the early daylight. The peaks are low on glacial ice, due to late summer.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 26 frames.