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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.

  • Flying over burned trees to distant waterfall…

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    Scene notes:

    …as the shadows rise late in the day on mountain cliffs. This UAS clip with a three second interval flies onto quickly rising shadows from the steep cliffs. Much of the forest is burned, flying under below, the trees recently browned and scorched from the heat where the forest once was alive. Centered is a medium-sized waterfall and creek, which the camera flies to. A blue-sky has a few receding mid-level clouds. The wilderness area has sheer cliffs of several hundred feet. The terrain is mostly without soil and only stone with some winter snow still on the upper ridge in one area.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 21 frames.

  • Flying rapidly over Iceland above Snæfellsjökull

    Scene notes:

    Snæfellsjökull National Park, slow life and the ocean briefly in the distance Slow life is plant life that takes a very long time to grow, just one person trampling these plants can damage the ecosystem for decades.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps): 56 seconds and 13 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…

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    Scene notes: Appearing to rotate, it is the Earth that spins. Comet Neowise passed by Earth in the summer of 2020. The comet’s tail is a fine contrail in the starry sky. Near the horizon, where it seems stationary in the rotating sky, the frame is enlarged using digital pan ‘n scan, a nineties term, meaning digital zoom. The extra resolution of the original images allows this. Meteorites can be observed in digital frames, as well as airplanes, zooming by in just a few frames.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 28 frames.

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

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    Scene notes:

    An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    4 seconds and 23 frames.

  • Panning past a tree trunk to a forest hillside in the afternoon

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    A lichen-covered tree is panned past, towards a steep downward slope of a mossy-floored evergreen forest. Shadows pass the ground as they move with the sun’s angle later into the day. At clip’s end, a blue pond far below is seen in the upper-right frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 23 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.

  • 2 of 2 | Panning past icicles and moss in the forest where shadows move

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    Scene notes:

    Panning right, the icicles the frame is moving over drip as they slowly melt, and the shadows from the trees move over the snow and mossy ground; and a diagonal trunk, leaning from the hillside, casts a shadow across the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 2 frames.