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A wet and shining rock face shows recent rain, with more to come as the clouds quickly move over the ridge and peaks of the mountains, dark.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
5 seconds and 8 frames.
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As rain clouds move over the Sierra Nevada, darkness falls on the land
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Rain shower from a Cumulonimbus cloud approaches
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The cloud approaches darkening the valley landscape below. An incoming Nimbus cloud blocks the light, rain can be seen in the distance, precipitating. The cloud takes up the whole of the sky.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 5 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).
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8 seconds and 29 frames. -
Reflection of blue sky and clouds in Crater Lake, late morning
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Wind breezes on water, pristinely colored in the caldera of the dead volcano. The snow on the left hand of the frame persists on the rim of the lake, and the sky has lower and high-level clouds- Cirrus and contrails.
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9 seconds and 8 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. -
From being fully obscured by the morning fog to fair sky, the Golden Gate emerges
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A bright marine fog layer slowly evaporates around the Golden Gate Bridge, a small ship is seen exiting as the fog recedes. The Marin Headlights are exposed to day in the middle ground between this point of view and the bay.
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9 seconds and 16 frames. -
Mount Shasta from the south, partly within lower cloud, at winter mid-day
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An orographically-formed cloud contained on the upper slopes of Mt Shasta, outer parts evaporating to reveal it blanketing smoothly the peaks and peaet of the northern California mountain. The ancient volcano is dormant and comprises two thirds of the frame: the blue sky above.
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9 seconds and 17 frames. -
On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds with towns, lake below
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Panning to the right over a red rock canyon, with low clouds of low-density float and meandering overhead, shadows quickly passing through the canyon floor and the large white boulder in the foreground (near clip end).
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 6 frames.