Tag: snow

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  • 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.

  • 1 of 3 | Low clouds moving at night over mountain range in moonlight

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    A night over a rocky landscape, winter mountains under a small bank of clouds include Mt Whitney. Very small, lower clouds rapidly roll in the sky in the upper frame with the stars in the blue moonlight. Mt Whitney is shown as a snowy saw-toothed ridge in the distance.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    4 seconds and 21 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Mount Rainier’s western flank

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    Under very light clouds, creeping up its slopes during fair-weather. Its peak becoming more obscured deep in the clouds, Mt Rainier is the subject of the frame, along with a Cumulus cloud that persistently grows. The shade from this cloud casts shadows on the many steep slopes below.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 25 frames.

  • 2 of 3 | On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds

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    The continuation of another clip. low-level, fluffy clouds below and at eye-level on Mt Pilatus, and a cable car is observable late clip, ascending. In the distance, past a green plain and clouded hillside, the Alps and its numerous peaks. This southwestern view includes views of Schwarzhorn, Augstmatthorn, and Schrattenfluh in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch, most peaks dealing with at least some clouds on their slopes.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 21 frames.

  • Slow pink sunrise on mountains in winter facing west with fair sky

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    Almost silhouetted in the morning blue hour, stones of the Alabama Hills in California lay large in the in the foreground of the Sierra Nevada mountains, which are pink and brightening in the sunrise light.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Ascending Mount Shasta, California, late in the day above the fog facing north

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    The UAS ascends, and a nearby fog layer passes by. Mt Shasta is seen in the morning light stretching out, it’s two peaks fully draped in a fresh winter snow. The morning sky is a bright blue color against the peaks. There are a few distant high clouds. The unique perspective of the mountain is simply not available from the ground.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 14 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Late day Yosemite winter transforming into sunset

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    A winter view of Yosemite valley: a very small stratus of fog on El Capitan’s ridge plays slowly as the shadows rise at an also slow pace. The water of Bridalveil Falls still pours near the right of the frame, mostly shadowed by the land at clip’s end. Evergreen trees reside on every surface that is not too steep to grow on, and the valley becomes Tenaya Canyon further out, snow becoming more fulsome.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 2 frames.

  • 3 of 3 | On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds on lake below with boats moving

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    Looking out onto Lake Lucerne from Esel, near the peak of Mt Pilatus. Just above orographically-influenced Cumulus clouds just below, with vapor beginning to pile onto the steep surfaces and sheer face of the peak.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 15 frames.