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On the forest floor of a hillside, the late day shadows shift among the branches, leaves, and
ferns.
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Shade moves slowly on the forest hillside until sunset
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In thicker fog and dense forest, light rays persist
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Scene notes:
… and shine when altitudes are just right. Light rays, cast by thin branches create the longest shadows cast on the glow of the sun, with the fog ending just feet above the trees. Mossy tree trunks and severed branches, remnants of them still on their trees, mostly at left, with a smaller fallen tree center-right. A few ferns are in the lower left corner of the frame, quivering slightly in a breeze.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
31 seconds and 3 frames. -
Single tree next to a footpath is left of some light rays that vanish, reappear
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Scene notes:
Small pines by the hiking trail. The light rays are dominant and clip’s beginning and end. There is a period of no fog in the middle of playback. The hiking trail passes by the tree at left. The greens of the trees are vibrant when the fog fades at clip’s end. Lens flare: partially present.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 10 frames. -
Slow moving fog before the forest, lit by the morning sun
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Scene notes:
One of the slowest-moving of the forest fog clips. Trees of varying age and size, all evergreen conifers, are the subjects of the frame, while the upper limits of a fog bank is. The sun pours through the branches, and the high radiant intensity on the fog makes for a bright light ray effect. A small fraction (lower left) of the frame is a grassy hill foreground. The greens on the lower right stand out, mossy branches of trees illuminated.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 3 frames. -
1 of 2 | Panning past icicles and moss in the forest where shadows move
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Scene notes:
Similar to another clip in this scene, the camera is reset in another position. The overhang of moss and a hillside can be an ideal place for icicle formation, as this scene makes apparent. Very low or no wind makes the shade from tree limbs and twigs soft and stably moving across the ground in a predictable direction as the camera slowly pans to the right. Snow still exists in spots on the forest floor, adjacent to these large icicles, droplets visibly forming on their tips of them.
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25 seconds and 2 frames. -
Forest shadows moving with time over the purple flower of the creek
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Camas flower in and out of shade as the sun moves behind trees, shading the purple flower
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9 seconds and 16 frames. -
Vivid light rays on fog through a cypress tree on a hill
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Scene notes:
Generally speaking, the foggy forest is not a dynamic source of light- it’s normally diffuse and thick enough so the light above cannot even penetrate it. But when the ceiling of the fog is at the altitude of the observer, the sunbeams highlight the ferns on the forest floor.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 20 frames. -
Mixed cloud sunset over rocky landscape and forest
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Scene notes:
… in wilderness under clouds where the sun is seen. An exemplar of Altocumulus Castellanus near the center of the frame. Underlit with purple sunlight filtered from smoke, these clouds tower, owing that their names are derived from castle towers. At the end of playback, the sun can be seen brilliantly going down before disappearing into night. An airplane is seen zooming past in the sky, twice, in the upper-left frame. Upper-level Cirrocumulus clouds are gold in their altitude which gives them brilliant direct sunlight to the end.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 14 frames.