Tag: snow

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  • Flying over burned trees to distant waterfall…

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    …as the shadows rise late in the day on mountain cliffs. This UAS clip with a three second interval flies onto quickly rising shadows from the steep cliffs. Much of the forest is burned, flying under below, the trees recently browned and scorched from the heat where the forest once was alive. Centered is a medium-sized waterfall and creek, which the camera flies to. A blue-sky has a few receding mid-level clouds. The wilderness area has sheer cliffs of several hundred feet. The terrain is mostly without soil and only stone with some winter snow still on the upper ridge in one area.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 21 frames.

  • Very low-density clouds in the moonlight on rocky…

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    A rocky landscape in front of snow-capped mountains. Under a moonlit night sky, stratus clouds ascend Mt Whitney and the Sierras, but only with enough to meander. The mountain range is snowy and steep, fully lit with the moon. The night sky is starry, and in the bottom tenth of the frame, the rocky hills are at the foot of the steep mountain slopes, which have shadows from the rare cloud that makes it over the ridges.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    23 seconds and 8 frames.

  • Clouds and shadows on distant mountain background…

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    …under clouds and shadows. Over the continental divide in Colorado, mountains deep in natural snow are unmarred by signs of society, and range from big gradual slopes to the sharpest, rocky peaks near center-frame. The upper slopes, a quarter of the frame, is snowy, and are shaded by the clouds overhead which are moving towards-camera but without momentum.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 18 frames.

  • Cumulus nearby Bridalveil Falls viewpoint, Yosemite…

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    …National Park. A famous view over a canyon valley vista with waterfall in the afternoon 1 of 2. Above the side-road parking lot, overlooking Yosemite Valley on a perfectly fifty percent cloudy day there is a POV. High up on a trail away from the tour buses, a maintained path leads straight up the hill face, warm and dry ground on this day. these cumulus meander in the general direction of the wind, their shadows moving along the greenery and granite of these steep cliff faces and arched domes in the distance, Half Dome, still with the bits of snowy outcrops on its very top.

    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    20 seconds and 27 frames.

  • Winter landscape with mountainous peaks in distance

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    The high Sierra country under a mix of high and low clouds with a clean snow foreground in the midday sun.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds.

  • Winter in Yosemite over the woods and under heavy cloud

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    A three second interval is used for short timespan clips such as these. If not for the steep slopes of the valley cliffs, cloaked partly in dense winter fog, this scene could be reminiscent of many northern climates. The cerulean late afternoon sky is unobscured along much of the top third of the frame, but the clouds are moving everywhere.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 3 frames.

  • Ascending flight above rocky, snowy hills and fir trees south of Lake Tahoe

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    As the UAS rises over the partly snowy, rocky forest mountain, Lake Tahoe comes into view, and a far-off mountainous rim around the cerulean blue lake, which clouds leave shifting shadows on from their layer.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 22 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | V slow light shaft moving toward POV on top Bryce Canyon

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    Capturing a moment of time at dawn in the winter among the positively red hoodoos of sandstone and dolomite, which owes their odd shapes to the erosive patterns from these rocks. Snow blankets this unusual and wild landscape, as it stretches and flattens out into the distance where a ridge separates land and sky. The sun, out of frame, rises, and with it the snow brightens, and shadows recede.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 17 frames.