… Airport, SFO at night under rainy clouds. The continuation of another clip (the camera has been
moved). The airplane traffic (bottom right) zips by more frequently, landing at the airport. Other
air traffic is seen. The city lights take up a sliver of the bottom of the frame. The
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 2 frames.
… and their small lights ascending before dawn. Multi-categorized clip. The moon sets behind Mt
Rainier. Looking closely afterward, a distant, single climbing party’s headlights are shown ascending
the rugged and impressive slope overnight. Morning comes, a blue hour, and far, far behind some
conifers, the snow of the mountain becomes pink momentarily against the rapidly changing sky, until
the sky is light blue, and it is day again.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
38 seconds and 4 frames.
…out and high clouds moving rapidly, moonlit The full moon rises behind high clouds. The view from
this light is dynamic, made more so by smoke from nearby fires. The smoke is seen as a nebulous
cloud, only thinly veiling this view. Stars are seen above the clouds. How is this a moonrise? The
long exposure of the individual frames allows for more light to be captured in the image, enough to
be of comparable levels to a sunrise at certain times. The view of the canyon is deep, the point of
view is from Duck on a Rock viewpoint facing northeast.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 13 frames.
The vast Crater Lake is under heavy rolling low clouds that part for the moonlight to briefly shine
on the water and allow the few stars visible to shine through.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 26 frames.
Thunderstorm – content warning for epilepsy. A dangerous, approaching nighttime thunderstorm with
lightning illuminating the thundercloud from within. The storm has mostly cloud-to-cloud lightning. A
gust front is visible as the high winds make the environment hazardous. The strobing lights below are
made by the passing highway traffic (out of frame).
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 27 frames.
… by lightning and stationary – content warning for epilepsy. The thunderstorm of the night in the
Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida has no wind behind it to come onshore or make any other
direction- this night storm has both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning, with strikes
shown, the flashes outlining and silhouetting parts of the storm, including the anvil shape of the
nimbus cloud.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 20 frames.
Tufas are the unique stone structures shown at left in the moonlight, which also make visible the
light and fluffy low-level clouds cast night shadows over the distant desert landscape, with stars
present.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
14 seconds and 27 frames.
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Now clip NGT087. The desert night sky around the rim Canyonlands. The moon sets late in the clip,
taking with it the illumination of the landscape, now trees silhouette on the hills, which comprise a
fifth of the frame. and the night sky is just as starry this cloudless night.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 29 frames.