Tag: cumulus

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  • In the late afternoon, towering cloud loses sunlight…

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    … So it loses its energy, and its vapor loses density, visibility. An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Wintery and huge mountain looms overhead

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    … steeped in clouds, crawling on its slopes. Rock face with rock fall, mixed with these river-shaped eroded areas called cirques, as well as the striations of comprise this mountain that starts as largely shadowed by low clouds. Bright areas of light on the slopes where the clouds break on a massive arête, far too steep for snow (late clip).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 29 frames.

  • As rain clouds move over the Sierra Nevada, darkness falls on the land

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    A wet and shining rock face shows recent rain, with more to come as the clouds quickly move over the ridge and peaks of the mountains, dark.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    5 seconds and 8 frames.

  • On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds with towns, lake below

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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.

  • 1 of 3 | Transforming medium clouds above

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    With eighty percent cloud cover transformations. The continuation of another clip.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 10 frames.

  • 9 of 10 | Sierra Nevada Mountain range and midday clouds

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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.

  • Yellow flowers in meadow all around a lone tree…

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    A tree under passing medium-density clouds at noon. Panning physically, motion-controlled, leftward on a field of yellow flowers, lone oak tree in the middle-distance, under exemplar formations of lower-level clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 29 frames.

  • Oahu, Hawaii, jungle peak cloud shade on verdant…

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    …meadows beyond a sharp range under clouds. Intermittent shadows on the Anquille peak of a volcanic formation over the north side of Oahu. Round-shaped trees and cultivated meadows far below the sheer rock face, to steep for any vegetation.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 23 frames.