Tag: rocks

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  • Arrowleaf Balsomroot on a meadow before red rock…

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    Rock formations under light midday clouds flowing overhead. Sandstone spires stand tall into the sky looking down from afar on yellow flowering Arrowleaf Balsomroot plants all around the foreground. The meadow comprises half the frame, and a hill rises green to change into the red ground and shrubs into formations of pure stone.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Sandstone monoliths under fast clouds which cast moving shade

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    Panning to the right over a red rock canyon, with low clouds of low-density float and meandering overhead, shadows quickly passing through the canyon floor and the large white boulder in the foreground (near clip end).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 6 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.

  • 1 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight

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    A night over a rocky landscape, winter mountains under a small bank of clouds include Mt Whitney. Very small, lower clouds rapidly roll in the sky in the upper frame with the stars in the blue moonlight. Mt Whitney is shown as a snowy saw-toothed ridge in the distance.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    4 seconds and 21 frames.

  • Slow pink sunrise on mountains in winter facing west with fair sky

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    Almost silhouetted in the morning blue hour, stones of the Alabama Hills in California lay large in the in the foreground of the Sierra Nevada mountains, which are pink and brightening in the sunrise light.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Moving on small stones in the foreground with

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    A fog layer that seems to caress the tree line on a hilly ridge just beyond. The camera moves to the right on a dolly over the foreground ledge. A fog bank is contained by the ridge line half a mile away, which extends across the frame. The stratus layer flows over the ridge line slightly, while the sky-blue ceiling in the top quarter of the frame is unbroken by any clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 14 frames.

  • Behind a rocky landscape the Milky Way galaxy

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    The Milky Way rotates above in the night sky above the Nevada desert in a cloudless night. Only a shrub and stones comprise the foreground that the setting moon illuminates.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Mountain landscape silhouetted under scattering clouds at dusk

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    In the late afternoon, just before sunset, the sun has moved below the mountains. On the peaks, some clouds are created by the high winds and pour over the top of the frame. The foreground is a unique desert landscape of stone and decomposed granite.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 11 frames.