Day Timelapse

  • 3 of 3 | Shifting, dark snowy rain clouds on vast lake

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    Scene notes:

    Wind on water is visible throughout this frame. Strong gusts push the water chaotically on the surface of the vast, deep volcanic caldera. So much freshwater fills this vast crater that it is one of the deepest lakes in the world, the lake spans well outside the viewing angle of this POV. After days of solitude and nothing but clouds, light shafts eventually peak through the cloud and snowfall to brightly illuminate sections of water next to Wizard Hat Island.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 5 frames.

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  • Slower, small Cumulus clouds at winter at Grand Canyon

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    Scene notes:

    A winter landscape at Grand Canyon facing north from South Rim, with light, fluffy clouds. Along the vista and foreground, the shadows of the clouds move steadily along the scene. The north side of the canyon has a blanket of snow on the rim, which is mostly under very low vapor cover.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    20 seconds and 11 frames.

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  • On a view of vast lake w/ clouds moving and shade on windy water

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    Scene notes:

    A largely winter landscape on volcanic crater overlooks the moving clouds and bright spots of the lake
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    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 26 frames.

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  • Late afternoon land sea traffic around Golden Gate

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    Scene notes:

    The brick-red Golden Gate Bridge spans the frame, never-ceasing traffic flow pouring through. Under, beyond, and before, ships of all sail, motor, and port into the bay. Observe baby-sized waves on the headlands below, made apparent by the time-lapse.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    26 seconds and 18 frames.

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  • Towering Cumulus congestus growing and moving in blue skies

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    Scene notes:

    Heat, moisture, and more heat. The Everglades have this in spades. Seen here, the clouds are truly towering in their nature, being taller than they are wide at their base. These updrafts play out as visible clouds and will grow to form rain clouds. Tropical land warming accelerates these clouds around the Everglades, and the warm waters assist in visible absolute humidity.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    9 seconds and 19 frames.

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  • Mammatus clouds above hills darkening away at dusk in the sky

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    Scene notes:

    The scientific adage of ‘what goes up, must come down’ rings true in this scene where, at right, lower-level clouds rise in convection. Over this ridgeline, there are pockets of air that fall through the cloud as cold patches, creating these distinctive looking clouds. While the dire, dark gray, bizarre looking ‘mammatus’ are this size only 30-40000 ft and attached to monstrous storms, these are clearly harmless clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 15 frames.

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

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    Scene notes:

    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.

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  • On distant Colorado peaks and valleys roll shadows of the building clouds

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    Scene notes:

    Low clouds are attempting to build on the Grand Tetons in the early daylight. The peaks are low on glacial ice, due to late summer.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 26 frames.

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