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Shifting, growing thunderstorm over sunrise waves

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A morning Nimbus cloud, with leading edge glowing in the morning light. The short storm (due to the fact that the time of day is morning, and this is likely the remnant of a more active storm from the previous day) plows forward left-right. In the lower third of the frame, the calm ocean waves reflect much of the sky, and many small birds, sandpipers, run around on the sand, mainly halfway through the clip. Rain can be observed under the cloud. There is a
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
29 seconds and 13 frames.

Growing sunrise light grows to meadow from Grand Tetons to daylight

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Pink light of the morning sun as it rises above the horizon off-frame from the east. A few fleeting clouds from the night before linger, as the scene brightens, and day breaks over the fields which comprises nearly half the frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
18 seconds and 22 frames.

Morning virga clouds with cirrus mixed around

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High level clouds with some streaking; ice crystals slowly spreading out in lines as the strong jet stream pushes them along rapidly overhead with low transformation.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
21 seconds frames.

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.

On an Oregon meadow with green grass, shadows…

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… from heavier low clouds travel across on an electric green, grass meadow.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds.

2 of 2 | Vivid light rays on fog through a cypress tree on a hill

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Scene notes:

A steady amount of fog pours through, while just above. Without a layer of cloud above, the full brightness of the sun is coming through the canopy at top-right, spreading out as sunbeams on the ferns, mossy rocks, and vegetation of the hill, which climbs 45 degrees and fills a third of the frame. A three second interval is used.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
18 seconds and 14 frames.

Fog falling slowly in a forest exposing the greens of conifers on the hillside trail

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Fog catches the sun and the shadows of the tall trees cast shadows on the glow. The hillside is steep and falls away from the left frame, covered in ferns and vegetation, which slowly move on the breeze. The fog slowly falls away, taking the sunbeams with it.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
32 seconds and 2 frames.

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.