…slowly on Grand Canyon desert in the distance, approaching Ten rock layers are visible in this vista, with ‘the great uncomformity’ (which indicates a gap in the geologic records) clearly visible as a rock step at the feet of massive boulder fields, which comprise much of a rim-like edge to the Colorado below. Light cloud shadows travel over the walls and slopes of the canyon. length at 30 fps: 11 seconds and 21 frames.
A slow desert scene featuring a few high clouds and arid sand dunes below. The sand dunes comprise
ABOUT of half the frame. The distant mountain ridges occupy one fifth. The peaks of Black, Funeral,
and Grapevine mountains are off to the east in the distance. The shadows on the ground in particular
become longer.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 21 frames.
Cumulus clouds shifting in the dusk light above the Sierras and point of view. It’s blue hour, as the
light fades from pink to dull gray, the sky remains blue.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
44 seconds and 25 frames.
… clouds float by overhead and on mountains. A wide-angle view from a hillside overlooking an aspen
grove. Behind, mountains rise on both sides with low clouds and shadows moving past. The same grove
is featured in this clip series from a closer vantage point in three other clips.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 14 frames.
Wide-angle view of Sierra Nevada and the deep blue-sky above, panning leftward over the shrublands
and dynamically shadowed landscape from clouds passing by at low, medium, and high altitude.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 26 frames.
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Light clouds, creeping up its slopes during fair-weather. Time-lapse length at 30 fps: 10 seconds and 20 frames.
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.
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.