Tag: Grand Canyon

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  • Extra-light clouds casting a few shadows transforming

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    The snow-covered rim of both the north and southern rim of Grand Canyon is highlighted under moving lower, fluffy clouds. Clouds from outside the frame cast their dark shadows on the cliffs and rim as they pass swiftly in the winter wind, their transformations almost muted playsinline compared to the clouds of summer. The lower temperatures are responsible for the relatively sluggish air currents around and in the clouds themselves.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 18 frames.

  • Moon rises over Grand Canyon with smoke clearing…

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    …out and high clouds moving rapidly, moonlit The full moon rises behind high clouds. The view from this light is dynamic, made more so by smoke from nearby fires. The smoke is seen as a nebulous cloud, only thinly veiling this view. Stars are seen above the clouds. How is this a moonrise? The long exposure of the individual frames allows for more light to be captured in the image, enough to be of comparable levels to a sunrise at certain times. The view of the canyon is deep, the point of view is from Duck on a Rock viewpoint facing northeast.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Grand Canyon with the sun’s shade shifting on the red rocks below

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    The sunset from Pike Creek Vista, Grand Canyon. The northwestward view shows the canyon stretching vast distances under the sky, which comprises the top quarter of the frame. Mid-level clouds shape the light above while the landscape shades itself, cliffs and precipices in the dark. The sun disappears below the horizon in this darkening scene. Original footage from 2005.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Very few shadows from lightest clouds roam

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    …under Grand Canyon viewpoint in the snowy winter. A foreground of white, a middle ground of orange stone, and a background of all the stone colors of the southwest. Light clouds, low level fluffy formations, cast crawling shadows on the vast boulder fields, rock steps and corniced ridgelines and summits of the canyon.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Golden Gate Bridge traffic motion at night

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    …with city lights behind, aircraft taking off into the sky. An observer on the Marin Headlands sees much of the city from one view, where the bay enters the ocean in the other direction. Spanning the bay is the bridge, cars speeding along as they always do. As night falls, the lights glow reddish, the blues of blue hour change, and the airplanes take off in the sky, which comprises about a sixth of the frame. Ships are seen coming through the bridge and leaving, such as a tugboat escorting a cargo ship.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    24 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Winter snow on cliffs with shadow rising at sunrise with no sky

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    Observable are the shadows on the snowy foreground of brush and cliffside, as well as the distant canyon landscape. The shadows are shortening; it is morning at Grand Canyon’s south rim.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 10 frames.

  • Shadows lowering, facing North Rim at Grand Canyon at dawn

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    The north rim of the canyon brightens in the dawn of a new day.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    5 seconds and 13 frames.