To preserve the beach itself, the name is not shared here. Above the jungle peaks, the clouds over
the Napali coastline drop enough rain at the distance needed to produce a partial rainbow, which is a
full half to double rainbow in another clip; that specific clip can be found by clicking the
‘rainbow’ tag on this page. This is a clip with SKU# DSK146 that is categorized in the ‘Day’
collection.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 29 frames.
On a hill view just north of Akureyri, Iceland. Looking across the inlet to mountainous landscapes in
a fog layer of stratus cloud. The low clouds move along, and a partial rainbow briefly forms in the
sky from precipitation. The dawn is pinkish on the low clouds, facing west at sunrise, away from the
sun. A three second interval is used.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
16 seconds.
…with beach in foreground. Kauai is the furthest west island of the Hawaiian chain, and on the
furthest western beaches, nature has been left to prevail; although trucks ride on this lesser known
beach, it has a big enough area to accommodate the people enjoying the solitude and beauty that is
reminiscent of prehistory. A rainbow stretches and begins its second bow as conditions are nearing
perfect for this formation; the rain is at the right distance with the sun being at the correct angle
in the sky near sunset. As the day grows older the rainbow is more likely to appear, until a period
before sunset when it is very likely to encounter clouds on the horizon, as it was apparent in this
scene to the observant during filming using two or three second intervals.
… on mountainous coast casting shadows. In this UAS-based time-lapse, a two second interval is used
to capture the meandering cloud that produces the rain. The rain creates an optical rainbow. Cerulean
sky of the day is behind the clouds. The machine flies towards a rainbow made by the same clouds as
sunset clips of this scene from the ground. Jungle is seen below, and the steep slopes approach the
viewpoint of the camera. The rainbow stays near the center of the frame as the drone stays outside
boundaries in a free fly zone. Rust colored stone comprises the new volcanic headlands.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 23 frames.
… in the distance over barn, a strange formation, a slow vortex. An atlas cedar guards over a barn,
which seemingly has a small rainbow right next to it in the left portion of the frame. A meadow
comprises an eighth of the frame, under growing shade from the setting sun, look west. Observed is a
cloud that is raining, known as a ‘Cumulonimbus’ cloud. These clouds are chaotic in many ways from
the knock-on effects that are local from so much air moving in different directions. It is eventually
inevitable that an ‘eddy’ in the sky, or a small vortex, will sometimes form. This funnel-shaped
cloud is by no means dangerous, as its spin only resolves to the naked eye in time-lapse.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
20 seconds and 19 frames.
The partial rainbow of the desert vanishes into thin air, rain moving out of the creation zone.
Distant desert foothills have cloud shadows cast on them throughout.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 19 frames.