Tag: shadows

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  • 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.

  • Late day San Francisco Golden Gate with boats, fog, traffic, shadows rising

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    A fog manages to cling to visibility moving into the bay, especially on the left of the frame, and shadows rise from the headlands on the hills. A cargo ship is seen mid-way through the clip exiting the bay. The city is fully visible in the distant left.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 1 frame.

  • 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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    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.

  • Shadows and the breeze on pristine waters of Crater Lake and Wizard Island

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    The lake caldera spans the frame, with Wizard Hat Island in the upper-right of the frame. The snow on the north facing slopes make the right-side of the frame a winter landscape around the water. The lake itself has many different breezes playing on its surface, owing to the shape of the rim that encircles it. Rocky cliffs frame the lower left and right, with smaller junipers and other species of trees.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 5 frames.

  • Stark gold light rays slowly move around rolling lower clouds at sunset

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    A hole in the cloud cover, and one smaller, scudding cloud in between that and the observer is all it takes for potent light rays to show on the humid air near sunset. The cloud itself creates the shade on the glow and understanding that makes the crepuscular rays logical to understand. The sunlight has radiant intensity, and this shows to the observer the details of the landscape below; trees on vast hills surrounding some countryside and a small pond far away.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 24 frames.

  • Hetch Hetchy reservoir in half-fog, with a waterfall

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    … in the distance and opposite side of water. The lake is shown from the viewpoint on the hydroelectric dam (out of view) itself. The wind gusts blow on the lake in randomized patterns from the landscape. Comprising four-tenths of the frame, the reservoir holds much of the state’s fresh-water supply and generates significant energy. There are multiple waterfalls visible on the left half of the frame, and fog moves in complex transformations on the erratic direction of wind.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 15 frames.

  • Extra-light clouds casting a few shadows transforming

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    The snow-covered rim of both the north and southern rim of Grand Canyon is highlighted under moving lower, fluffy clouds. Clouds from outside the frame cast their dark shadows on the cliffs and rim as they pass swiftly in the winter wind, their transformations almost muted playsinline compared to the clouds of summer. The lower temperatures are responsible for the relatively sluggish air currents around and in the clouds themselves.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 18 frames.