Tag: majestic

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

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    Scene notes:

    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.

  • From being fully obscured by the morning fog to fair sky, the Golden Gate emerges

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    Scene notes:

    A bright marine fog layer slowly evaporates around the Golden Gate Bridge, a small ship is seen exiting as the fog recedes. The Marin Headlights are exposed to day in the middle ground between this point of view and the bay.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 16 frames.

  • 3 of 3 | Axnadalur, Ox, northern Iceland, under clouds

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    Scene notes:

    … just barely hiding the precipice. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 12 frames.

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

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    Scene notes:

    The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds.

  • Moving over flowers next to a bright blue pond under a sky with very lightly moving clouds

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    Scene notes:

    The wind blows on the water as the highlight of this spring scene, which moves over purple flowers with more yellow ones at left. A distant hillside under fleeting low-level clouds and their shade.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 29 frames.

  • 4 of 4 | Under peak color Aspen grove, medium-density

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    Scene notes:

    … clouds float by overhead and on mountains. A wide-angle view from a hillside overlooking an aspen grove. Behind, mountains rise on both sides with low clouds and shadows moving past. The same grove is featured in this clip series from a closer vantage point in three other clips.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 14 frames.

  • Sierra Nevada Mountain range and midday clouds panning

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    Scene notes:

    Wide-angle view of Sierra Nevada and the deep blue-sky above, panning leftward over the shrublands and dynamically shadowed landscape from clouds passing by at low, medium, and high altitude.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 26 frames.

  • Sunrise over Grand Canyon with vibrant mixed clouds changing at dawn

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    Scene notes:

    The sunrise is displayed on Grand Canyon, light slowly brightening. The clouds above in the shifting sunlight transform wildly in the new light, and then gradually lose previous semblance of color. Instead of being lit from below, the clouds above are lit from above shortly after dawn. The desert canyon vista that stretches many miles is eventually illuminated like any other day.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    50 seconds and 4 frames.