Many lower clouds and a light Nimbus cloud on the valley view below. Rain is visible in the distance.
The landscape comprises a fifth of the frame, green and shadowed.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 18 frames.
Towering congestus clouds, benefiting slightly from orographic lift, float from the peaks of the
southern Sierra Nevada range. As tall as the mountains they seem to stand on, they transform as they
grow and lose energy away from the peaks, evaporating. On these snowy mountains, their shadows
travel. Under the blue sky, which is four-fifths of the frame, high Cirrus clouds move the opposing
direction.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 29 frames.
A fog manages to cling to visibility moving into the bay, especially on the left of the frame, and
shadows rise from the headlands on the hills. A cargo ship is seen mid-way through the clip exiting
the bay. The city is fully visible in the distant left.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 1 frame.
… under clouds and shadows beyond a small lake. Past a lake, in the distance on some rugged and steep
hills leading to higher peaks, a large grove of Aspen trees is under frequent shadowing from heavier
low clouds, which are moving away from the point of view. Snow can be seen on the higher altitudes in
different places.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
5 seconds and 17 frames.
Stratiform clouds at mid-level pass far overhead as the camera pans leftward. A yellow foreground of
flowers and plants goes in and out of the shade along with the background mountains. A stratus layer
on the peaks tumbles and struggles its way over the Sierra Nevada, and a few small clouds of
short-lived density play around the altitude of snow and just below the peaks. The view becomes full
of more ridge lines of various mountains to the south at the end of the clip. A limited depth of
field adds to the clip.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 6 frames.
… in the distance and opposite side of water. The lake is shown from the viewpoint on the
hydroelectric dam (out of view) itself. The wind gusts blow on the lake in randomized patterns from
the landscape. Comprising four-tenths of the frame, the reservoir holds much of the state’s
fresh-water supply and generates significant energy. There are multiple waterfalls visible on the
left half of the frame, and fog moves in complex transformations on the erratic direction of
wind.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 15 frames.
The sun sets below as lower clouds float quickly and change as they make their way past the camera
overhead in the illumination of the evening sun, colors shifting as time moves on to the ‘blue
hour’.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 17 frames.
Under very light clouds, creeping up its slopes during fair-weather. Its peak becoming more obscured
deep in the clouds, Mt Rainier is the subject of the frame, along with a Cumulus cloud that
persistently grows. The shade from this cloud casts shadows on the many steep slopes below.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 25 frames.