Tag: shadows

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  • Panning over massive monoliths in Arches…

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    Arches National Park. Rapid shadows gain in the desert sands among the massive monoliths that stand from fast erosive geologic periods. No clouds are seen. The distant mountains in the background at the end of the day.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    5 seconds, 16 frames.

  • Cloudless Canadian mountains in the late afternoon

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    Losing light. Lots of negative space for design appreciation. These mountains are two of the 442 mountains named in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, and form Canada’s continental divide: the place where water flows to the west on the west into the Pacific on one side and to the east on the other side.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 10 frames.

  • Canadian mountains under clouds with fall landscape

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    The westernmost mountains of Jasper National Park, which form the continental divide, above some autumn clouds, and under some high level clouds..
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 16 frames.

  • Light clouds over Canadian Rockies and cliffs

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    Jasper National Park has 615 miles of hiking trails. Seen here in the west portion of the park are just a few of the 440 plus mountains in this park, with cliffs too vertical to cling to them except for in the strongest winter snow.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 17 frames.

  • 2 of 2 Banff National Park mountain peaks in cloud

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    Among the snowy peaks, very fine mists follow the air currents, so that they are kept on one side of the steep peeks.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 28 frames.

  • 1 of 2 Banff National Park mountain peaks in cloud

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    The snowdrifts are a combination of snow and frozen mist high atop the aretes of these mountaintops from afar, blowing in the breeze of the morning.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    5 seconds and 15 frames.

  • Complex arches under high cirrus clouds

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    High clouds fly silently overhead this unnamed arch complex in the park of the same name, Arches National Parks. At over 80 feet diameter, the sandstone is a testament to erosion.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds.

  • Flowing clouds and shadows over high desert and a lake

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    On a lake in the Sierra Nevadas, heavier cumulus clouds flow overhead. Rocky and rugged terrain lead the way before it. The shadows of the clouds flow smoothly over distant autumn trees
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds.