Tag: desert

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  • Flying over unique sand dunes and shrublands…

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    Scene notes:

    Over sand dunes with shrublands on the right. The shadows of the nearby fog, passing on the ocean breeze, float by quickly as it unexpectedly comes in on return. The dunes don’t show a low amount of human impact- but a definite impact, nonetheless. The sky consists of the top seventh of the frame and is a mix of stratus layers under blue sky. The frame pans downward digitally from the sky.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 15 frames.

  • Canyonlands meadow at dusk with fading light

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    Needles District, Canyonlands. The meadow has a towering rock formation silhouette (right) against the evening sky which has a sliver or portal of open blue throughout. The mostly cloudy sky has areas of golden, glowing rain clouds that move overhead.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 17 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Foothills under a night sky of clear stars

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    Scene notes:

    A starry night sky on a gently rising slope leading up in the lower fifth of the frame. In the lower left corner, light pollution yellows a thin layer of clouds, and the sky spins left-right. Along the landscape a car or two travels around at a low speed, its headlights seemingly searching in the dark. Not facing in the direction of the galactic plane, which is the area of the night sky in which the majority of our galaxies starts are visible.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 7 frames.

  • Panning as the shadows move quickly over red desert landscape and cliffs

    Scene notes:

    Far in the Canyonlands of Needles Overlook in the distance one sees medium level clouds. SKU/clip number: Dsk168
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds.

  • Under a fair sky, bright red monoliths and the desert shadows

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    Monument Valley, daytime, under just a few roaming Cirrus clouds. The middle distance is a red desert landscape.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 24 frames.

  • With Needles district far off on horizon, Canyonlands under lighter cloud shade

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    Scene notes:

    Towers, breches, and gendarmes are French mountaineering words to describe mountains but the names are apt for the extremely far away rock formations.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Ascending on unique rock formations of Alabama Hills in California

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    Scene notes:

    The UAS ascends steadily over a lifeless environment of unique stone formations, with high clouds motionless in the sky. The ground shows no signs of humans, but the sky has a jet contrail pattern. Two hills seen are composed only of very large boulders that cracked into pieces after cooling as magma. The area lives on an active fault zone, and certain hills show where these flows of magma end; in the last 10 million years, these hills have dropped 11000 ft (2750 m) and were once around the height of Mt Whitney. No interval was used with this full motion clip.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 6 frames.

  • Night sky galaxy with galactic cloud, meteorites, satellites, airplanes

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    Scene notes:

    Deep in the desert next to a small face of rocks and stone, jaggedly sticking out into the backdrop of stars. The crop moves to enlarge the galactic cloud slightly. The very faint light pollution in the distance does not intrude into the sky’s features. A variety of objects can also be observed in the night sky.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 25 frames.