Tag: mountains

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  • Cloudy, facing west at sunrise light shifts on mountains, slow moving light

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    An example of a partly sunny sunrise. The morning dawn sheds light on the mountain range, illuminating it in filtered sunlight, but halfway through the clouds have moved in between mountain and sun. Shadows of the clouds move in. Above and to the west, more clouds, a system extending so far off westward it is still night on earth where it reaches.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 2 frames.

  • 3 of 4 | Under peak color Aspen grove, medium-dense…

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    Clouds float by overhead and on mountains. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted. A two second interval is used.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 26 frames.

  • Vibrant alpenglow fades behind mountains of Jasper at sunset with snowy cliffs

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    The mountain range is bathed in alpenglow, pink ambient lighting. High clouds provide the color, minutes after sunset in the winter. The mountain range is expansive in height and width, and is also defined by striated rock steps, cirques, flutings, fallen seracs, crags, long cornices, ice walls, and summits. The range at right has ice and snow fields as well as rock steps and an aret’e peak. The wide sky composes roughly two thirds of the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 19 frames.

  • Mt Shasta wide facing east at sunset under pinkish…

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    … and blue sky, facing east at sunset to Mt Shasta. Here a low-level cloud strand streak off the summit, and mid-level altostratus clouds catch the colorful sunset light. The mountain (lower left) is snow-covered and stands beyond a foothill of Manzanita bushes and shrubs, as well as distant evergreen Conifers.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    43 seconds and 2 frames.

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

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    Medium and lower-level clouds, as well as a small ‘scudding’ layer that is halfway up the mountain’s slopes, transform all along this multicolored mountain and arid landscape of yellows, reds, and whites of snow pack on eroded cliff faces and meltwater channels (center of frame at beginning of clip).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 15 frames.

  • Over mountains with snow, clouds above float in different roiling shapes

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    Deep flutings, cirques carve deeply into these mountains, and become ideal places for packed snow and ice. Slowly, low clouds creep above and on (center-left) the cornices and ridges of the mountains.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    42 seconds and 21 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Overhead mountains, clouds loom after

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    … sunset as blue surrounds gray forms. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted. Blue hour on the Sierras, with low clouds showing terrain (orographic) effects of landscapes below, as air currents move in patters and are effected by changes of large scale on the ground. Here, the Sierras end in what is called normal faulting, and this has an effect on the clouds. The intricate movement is highlighted against a pristine blue dusk behind the clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    43 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Rainbow on heavy clouds in the distance on a rocky landscape in the desert rain

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    The partial rainbow of the desert vanishes into thin air, rain moving out of the creation zone. Distant desert foothills have cloud shadows cast on them throughout.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 19 frames.