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1 of 2 | Mount Rainier’s western flank under very
Light clouds, creeping up its slopes during fair-weather. Time-lapse length at 30 fps: 10 seconds and 20 frames.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
Behind some trees, Lake Tahoe and a pink sunset of Cirrus
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Even the snow of the foreground is pink from the ambient light of the clouds. A fiery canvas ablaze with the day’s last minutes, streaks of vibrant crimson and passionate pink ignite the western sky. Below, a tranquil expanse of water mirrors the celestial drama, reflecting hues of rose and lavender. Silhouetted pines stand sentinel along the snowy banks, their dark forms a stark contrast to the luminous horizon. Distant, snow-capped peaks fade into a soft, ethereal blue, a gentle boundary between earth and the incandescent heavens. The snow continues in the distant mountain Mt Tallac (far away and at right).
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27 seconds and 23 frames. -
Fair sky facing south at sunset from mountain
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A mostly clear dusk sky over the Inyo mountains lookout. The snow-covered ground is dotted with Bristlecone pines. In the distance, a vast mountain range that is part of the Sierra Nevada. One ridge and the furthest ridge create a ‘saddle’ mid-frame and may look like an unlevel horizon, but such is nature and the wild. The sky is deep into ‘blue hour’.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
27 seconds. -
Brightening pink dawn over boreal forest in winter
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White spruce and other species of trees in the northern Canadian boreal forest stand below the pre-dawn sky, comprising about ninety percent of the frame. Mid-level clouds are quite detailed further near the horizon behind tree shapes and are more nebulous and stratified overhead closer turn more vibrant purples and pinks. The camera faces the west at sunrise at clip’s end.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
16 seconds and 26 frames. -
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.