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  • 2 of 2 Facing west at sunset from a viewpoint…

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    Scene notes: … of light rays through darker clouds slowly shifting. This is a slower clip with a very short interval and faster shutter speed. Crepuscular rays shine when there is a higher humidity in one area, but not necessarily very humid in the entire observable atmosphere around the observer. As the clouds move, the shadows defining the light rays move with them. The rays trace a path from the sun to the ground, and to the observer, the angles shift more the further the light path reaches from the sun.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 17 frames.

  • 1 of 2 Facing west at sunset from a viewpoint…

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    Scene notes:

    …light rays through darker clouds slowly shifting. Because of a small patch of open sky, the sun breaks free into the valley below in between dense cloud cover of Cumulus type. Far in the distance is the barely visible horizon, which is cloaked in cloud shadow. This is the second clip in a scene of a few that were taken within the same 90 minutes.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 18 frames.

  • 2 of 2 From the nearby Glacier point viewpoint…

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    …in Yosemite over a canyon valley vista with waterfall in the distance. Half Dome is seen side-on with moving shadows around it, viewed from the west under small clouds a small waterfall is also visible.

    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds -approx.

  • From the nearby Glacier Point viewpoint in Yosemite…

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    Scene notes:

    …over a canyon valley vista with waterfall in the afternoon. As the sun sets in the afternoon, the shadows slowly rise, with a few cloud shadow casts moving along the view below. A massive waterfall is dwarfed by a cone shaped peak with some snow in the frame’s center. Three trees in the foreground are silhouetted. The sun still shines on the Yosemite vista, a forest of partly burned evergreens among the cliffs of the frame’s left side. In the top half, a low cloud billows upward as it also disintegrates.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    25 seconds and 4 frames.

  • midday over far idyllic landscape, and Grand Tetons

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    Scene notes:

    A scene looking west at the Grand Teton mountain range under very pleasant clouds that float just above the sharp peaks. Jackson Lake is seen in the distance.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds.

  • 1 of 2 On Waimeia Canyon, low clouds flow smoothly…

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    Scene notes:

    …on jungle and volcanic landscape below. So many cliffs, Waimeia Canyon is a park which has a past as a volcano. It is scientifically shown to be the oldest of the islands of Hawaii, and ‘only a few’ million years ago there were many chambers of magma that collapsed into thin lava flows in the west side and thick flows in the east, and constantly erupting basalt continued to build many of the cliffs. As time went on, the rock decomposed enough from frequent rain to create soils for a jungle to grow. The original plant species that seeded today’s ecosystem floated in from storms that were taken from their birth islands over millennia. Here, the clouds that carried this rain are building and meandering, as they so often have throughout all the planet’s more recent time. Interval: 3 seconds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • Late day, afternoon just in the wilderness area 1 of 2

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    Scene notes:

    The Desolation Wilderness area is shown from a minor ridge. Mixed clouds are present just before sunset hour.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds.

  • Late day, afternoon just in the wilderness area 2 of 2

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    Scene notes:

    Mixed clouds and the afternoon sun on a high viewpoint in the Desolation Wilderness.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    21 seconds.