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

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    Panning digitally upwards, while the mountains display four levels of cloud cover, with two on its peaks or flank. Altocumulus appears to follow the low clouds caught on the peaks, with the same amount of evaporation once over. The fourth layer is the high-altitude Cirrostratus, a layer of thicker Cirrus, not affected by the lower mountains.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 20 frames.

  • Under Mount Whitney and others, clouds pass by in the sky, transforming and casting shadows on peaks

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    Sharp peaks up close: young granite spires and glacial erosive features are featured in the lower ragged third of the frame, while low clouds transform just overhead left-right. On the sheer stone cliff faces, shadows are clearly moving past. Drops of solid rocks give way to trees where the less steep terrain allows any growth.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 21 frames.

  • Fair sky facing south at sunset from mountain

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    A mostly clear dusk sky over the Inyo mountains lookout. The snow-covered ground is dotted with Bristlecone pines. In the distance, a vast mountain range that is part of the Sierra Nevada. One ridge and the furthest ridge create a ‘saddle’ mid-frame and may look like an unlevel horizon, but such is nature and the wild. The sky is deep into ‘blue hour’.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    27 seconds.

  • Desert, rocky landscapes, before Sierra Nevada

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    Panning right, the shrublands in the foreground comprises the bottom quarter of the frame. Above, blue-sky with stray lower clouds casting shadow on the ground below, rapidly shifting. The wide mountain range, snowy and peaked with sharp jagged cliffs, are partly under a blanket, which transform slowly. ‘Caught’ on the land, they exist only here for any length of time before evaporating elsewhere.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 24 frames.

  • Bakki, Iceland, large hills with bright rain

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    …on mountain in the distance beyond clear pastures. Observable on a large hill, low clouds and rain (left) on these Icelandic farm meadows. Shadows and sunlight on the rain shift as the precipitation rapidly moves along the Nimbus-cloaked high hills.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 24 frames.

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

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    Towering congestus clouds, benefiting slightly from orographic lift, float from the peaks of the southern Sierra Nevada range. As tall as the mountains they seem to stand on, they transform as they grow and lose energy away from the peaks, evaporating. On these snowy mountains, their shadows travel. Under the blue sky, which is four-fifths of the frame, high Cirrus clouds move the opposing direction.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 29 frames.

  • At fall, distant aspen grove with yellow leaves…

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    … under clouds and shadows beyond a small lake. Past a lake, in the distance on some rugged and steep hills leading to higher peaks, a large grove of Aspen trees is under frequent shadowing from heavier low clouds, which are moving away from the point of view. Snow can be seen on the higher altitudes in different places.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    5 seconds and 17 frames.

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

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    Scene notes:

    Stratiform clouds at mid-level pass far overhead as the camera pans leftward. A yellow foreground of flowers and plants goes in and out of the shade along with the background mountains. A stratus layer on the peaks tumbles and struggles its way over the Sierra Nevada, and a few small clouds of short-lived density play around the altitude of snow and just below the peaks. The view becomes full of more ridge lines of various mountains to the south at the end of the clip. A limited depth of field adds to the clip.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 6 frames.