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Night in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney, the arch is silhouetted by a starry night.
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7 seconds and 18 frames.
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Lesser known arch moved towards at night under stars
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1 of 2 | Foothills under a night sky of clear stars
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The sky, three-quarters of the frame, is full of stars, and the high foothills that comprise the start of the southern tip of Sierra Nevada build towards the right side. Light pollution in the bottom left of the frame lights some thin clouds, which move slowly against the spin of the planet.
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Above Sierras flanked by other close cliffs, the night darkens
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Mid-level clouds float over the point of view in the night, a starry sky above the mountains, which strongly rise on the left. A glacier of packed, icy snow resides in a distant slope near-center. The altostratus varies in its coverage of the sky; it ebbs and flows.
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Panning w/ red sandstone monoliths at blue sunset
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On complex red sandstone formations, shadows shift intermittently and then for the end duration as the sun sets. Facing east, with mid-level Castellanus clouds appearing to move away as the camera physically pans to the right, where shrublands lay before the stones.
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Landscape and forest in background contrast the bright sky as the sun sets
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The landscape is two-thirds of the frame, a forest of hills and ridges which extend into a vast plain. The humid air allows the radiant intensity to glow on these lands, the vapor both absorbs and emits some of the light in all directions. The sun moves lower into the dusk behind the horizon, leaving Cirrus clouds illuminated red and pink from below, and then, night falls.
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4 of 4 | Over the Bay, planes land at San Francisco
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… 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
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Moon rises over Grand Canyon with smoke clearing…
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…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.
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Mixed cloud sunset over rocky landscape and forest
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… in wilderness under clouds where the sun is seen. An exemplar of Altocumulus Castellanus near the center of the frame. Underlit with purple sunlight filtered from smoke, these clouds tower, owing that their names are derived from castle towers. At the end of playback, the sun can be seen brilliantly going down before disappearing into night. An airplane is seen zooming past in the sky, twice, in the upper-left frame. Upper-level Cirrocumulus clouds are gold in their altitude which gives them brilliant direct sunlight to the end.
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12 seconds and 14 frames.