Tag: mountain

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  • High above clouds and volcanic landscapes

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    Scene notes:

    … rolling cumuliform clouds into beyond. The clouds far below show signs of weak convection. The volcanic landscape is silhouetted, sloping slightly for a distance before dropping off. The stratus layer below flows slowly towards the right, while the lifting air currents run counter for their cycle above the layer below.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    29 seconds and 55 frames.

  • Marine layer over hills that are blanketing

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    … the forest above Mill Valley and on Mt Tamalpais. Similar at a first glance to a creek in long exposures, fog flowing central of frame takes the shapes of running water, while remaining gaseous vapor. The layer that came in from the ocean runs far into the horizon. Even very far away on the horizon, headlands rise slightly above the stratus. Playback length at 30 fps: 25 seconds.

  • 1 of 2 | Behind stones in the valley, bright fog flows below on the dark woods

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    Oranges like Tacao and Harvest Gold turn into Purples like Ferra as the sunsets, and the fog appears to move like a liquid solid – while being entirely vapor.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    32 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Brightly flowing eye-level fog layer just beyond some trees, rolling dramatically

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    A single ridge of fog bisects this stratus layer of fog beyond with no foreground. Cloud-fog the color of Butterscotch on their tops where the hits them, and pouring steadily towards the left, as if it’s a river about to turn into a drop and become a waterfall.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 11 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Glowing fog clouds behind a lone atlas cedar tree on a high hill overlook

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    Scene notes:

    Just around sunset when the light is most orange, the lone atlas cedar is midway to the fog, which seems to be rising just behind these trees. There is a wide vista of bright fog stretching miles out, and the hill that spans the valley below creates a shadow on the fog further away, miles out. It’s quite windy, apparent from the speed of the water vapor just beyond.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    23 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Atlas Cedar before fog at sunset under pink sky

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    Scene notes:

    The unique shape of an Atlas cedar is silhouetted against the brighter layers of upper-level clouds. Slower clips like these are more useful relaxation, biofeedback, etc. In the lower four tenths of the frame a slowly roiling fog bank is pinkish from ambient light. A longer exposure speed is used relative to other clips.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    19 seconds and 25 frames.

  • Fog is illuminated between the pines, creating colorful sunset rays before POV

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    Scene notes:

    The sun radiates vibrant sunbeams, filtered through the evergreen tree on the left of the frame. The fog moves rapidly left to right, and as its edges pass through the middle ground, the tree creates shadows where it physically blocks the light. The sunbeams are most pronounced midway through the clip. The colors of the glow change from bright gold to Papaya orange.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    21 seconds and 13 frames.

  • 2 of 3 | Very fast eye-level fog on hills and valley dusk

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    An evening on windy Mt Diablo, a foreground of vegetation precedes the several hills in small layers of fog. The wind whips the fog over the hillsides below, as the humid air glows brightly near the sun in the upper-third of the frame. Only in the distance of the Bay area are there more fog layers. The sky is otherwise cloudless, as the close fog passes nearby intermittently, brightening the whole scene for brief moments.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    21 seconds and 2 frames.