Tag: winter landscape

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  • On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds in winter below

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    Lucerne Lake, 6 kilometers below, is the center of the frame’s focus. A snowy slope, and a sheer cliff ridge below Pilatus’ peak extends into a third of the frame. The surrounding lakeside far below is finely cultivated greenery and forest area. The outskirts of Lucerne’s municipalities are also visible below, as are the clouds which will have no chance of climbing the mountain’s top surface and extend as small formations to the tops of the foothills and snowy peaks far beyond to the southeast.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 3 frames.

  • Wintery and huge mountain looms overhead

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    … steeped in clouds, crawling on its slopes. Rock face with rock fall, mixed with these river-shaped eroded areas called cirques, as well as the striations of comprise this mountain that starts as largely shadowed by low clouds. Bright areas of light on the slopes where the clouds break on a massive arête, far too steep for snow (late clip).
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 29 frames.

  • Behind snowy, rocky landscape, on mountains, clouds climb over, around

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    Rapidly blowing clouds on the mountain in the middle of the frame are dynamically changing moment to moment. A round, snow decorated boulder (right) is notable in the foreground among other large, varied stones.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 24 frames.

  • Bryce Canyon morning winter spires of red rock light moves onto POV

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    Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. The sandstone shapes are tufa shaped but are created by different processes. Pristine snow catches the light in brilliant ways as the sunlight dims periodically over the landscape intermittently from off-frame clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 21 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Mount Rainier’s western flank under very

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    Light clouds, creeping up its slopes during fair-weather. Time-lapse length at 30 fps: 10 seconds and 20 frames.

  • Very slow light shaft moving toward the view on top Bryce Canyon

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    On an overlook at Bryce Canyon in winter. A low-level stratus layer slowly gives way to light. Similar to another clip with more lighting, the snow begins to brighten near the end of the clip. The lowlands glow in the sun’s radiant intensity. This means they both absorb some of the light and emit it in all directions.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    44 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Vibrant alpenglow fades behind mountains of Jasper at sunset with snowy cliffs

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    The mountain range is bathed in alpenglow, pink ambient lighting. High clouds provide the color, minutes after sunset in the winter. The mountain range is expansive in height and width, and is also defined by striated rock steps, cirques, flutings, fallen seracs, crags, long cornices, ice walls, and summits. The range at right has ice and snow fields as well as rock steps and an aret’e peak. The wide sky composes roughly two thirds of the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 19 frames.

  • Crater Lake early morning in the winter with the wind on water below moving

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    Winter on Crater Lake: the snow covering the landscape is fresh. The vast lake is not entirely in the shadows of the clouds, as a break in the layer of thick low-level cover reveals light on the lake. The turbulent winds blow on the water, making their marks on the surface as they travel, along with the shadows. Blue sky patches are slowly covered by dawn clouds, which clearly precipitate on the opposing side of the caldera, near Wizard Hat Island. The ridge that comprises the crater’s rim, a drop of hundreds of feet, is a winter forest.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    43 seconds and 12 frames.