Dual layers of clouds over the Canyonlands, Needle District. Brief crepuscular rays are visible as
one second shows the landscape in the light. The overhead stratus layer darkens the sky.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 2 frames.
A slow desert scene featuring a few high clouds and arid sand dunes below. The sand dunes comprise
ABOUT of half the frame. The distant mountain ridges occupy one fifth. The peaks of Black, Funeral,
and Grapevine mountains are off to the east in the distance. The shadows on the ground in particular
become longer.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 21 frames.
Very small details in the sky in the desert dawn with a sliver of land. The interval used is one
second. Slower clips can be more useful for applications such as relaxation and biofeedback. The
mid-level clouds are positioned so other clouds do not block the light on the way to their
underside.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
41 seconds and 28 frames.
A night over a rocky landscape, winter mountains under a small bank of clouds include Mt Whitney.
Very small, lower clouds rapidly roll in the sky in the upper frame with the stars in the blue
moonlight. Mt Whitney is shown as a snowy saw-toothed ridge in the distance.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
4 seconds and 21 frames.
The Milky Way rotates above in the night sky above the Nevada desert in a cloudless night. Only a
shrub and stones comprise the foreground that the setting moon illuminates.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 13 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.
Monument Valley; a moonrise. Many airplanes crisscross the night sky as the stars of the sky wheel
overhead the giant monoliths of the sovereign Navajo landscape.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 22 frames.
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Now clip NGT087. The desert night sky around the rim Canyonlands. The moon sets late in the clip,
taking with it the illumination of the landscape, now trees silhouette on the hills, which comprise a
fifth of the frame. and the night sky is just as starry this cloudless night.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 29 frames.