Flying rapidly over Iceland above Snæfellsjökull

Tag: morning

  • From Yosemite Valley, light lower-level clouds…

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    cast shadows on the trees and meadow below. From within the park valley, Half Dome looms above the trees on the right-side of the frame. An imposing monolith rises on the opposing side, this forms a section of canyon with ninety-degree cliffs on both sides and a river in between them. Very light passing fluffy clouds meander in the cerulean blue sky. Not a long way behind the trees the valley turns in to Tenaya Canyon.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    33 seconds and 17 frames.

  • 1 of 2 light shafts created by taller altocumulus mid level clouds at sunrise

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    Night in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney, the arch is silhouetted by a starry night.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 18 frames.

  • Autumnal trees near Canyonlands under high clouds

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    Panning to the right mechanically near some tree, possibly a cottonwood, near some canyons in Utah in the mid-day.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 6 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | V slow light shaft moving toward POV on top Bryce Canyon

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    Capturing a moment of time at dawn in the winter among the positively red hoodoos of sandstone and dolomite, which owes their odd shapes to the erosive patterns from these rocks. Snow blankets this unusual and wild landscape, as it stretches and flattens out into the distance where a ridge separates land and sky. The sun, out of frame, rises, and with it the snow brightens, and shadows recede.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Thermal vents below in valley before a wide expanse

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    Expanse of meadows and fields under morning clouds in Strokkur, Iceland. The formation of lower clouds on the medium to heavy side play over the flat interior of the expansive plains below. Many small and medium-sized vents spout steam regularly, with a larger spouting from a vent midway through playback. The cloud shadows of the morning shift quickly on the green fields and trees that are close by.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 10 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Behind trees, a small fog blanket rolls on Lake Tahoe at sunrise

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    In the distance over Lake Tahoe, a fog bank is rolling. In the sky, clouds and crisscrossing contrails are illuminated around 40,000 ft in the morning sun, when colors change fastest (with the exception of dusk). The chardonnay yellows of the horizon and bluish-purple of the deep sky this dawn are on display.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 11 frames.

  • Short time-lapse of fog shifting heights on frost…

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    Frost covered, mossy trees, all on a forest slope. A distinctly Oregonian forest, with moss and trees covered in a moving fog that is just the same altitude as the point of view. Panning downwards from frost-covered moss of a defoliated tree, before the many pines and cypresses of varying age and size. At bottom and left of the frame, ferns and mossy trees make the forest carpet, sloping steeply downwards, with other limbs and trunks seemingly coming out of and back into the cold winter mist of pristine air quality.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    4 seconds.