Distant landscape, lake or canyon

  • Night moonrise at Grand Canyon looking northeast

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    Scene notes:

    From a point in Grand Canyon, the horizon may be level, but the land isn’t; this is owed to the nature of the geography of the surroundings of the National park. The bright object illuminating the landscape is not the sun, but the moon. A long exposure captures the light for a period of time to greatly intensify the brightness of the scene in comparison to the human eye. Smoke wafts in the canyon from a wildfire.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    32 seconds and 8 frames.

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  • 2 of 2 Clouds at night illuminated partly by city…

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    Scene notes:

    City lights under stars, aircraft flying over. The Big Dipper, the famous constellation, is observable at the top of the frame. The lower left corner has stratus clouds, but the sky is otherwise clear. A couple of airplanes can be seen flying through, under a starry night sky with a long exposure of several seconds and interval of just as much time.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    25 seconds.

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  • Moonlit night with heavier clouds above a desert

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    Scene notes:

    …Landscape and highway with cars headlights, comatics. Car headlights travel quickly along the highway, which is at the foot of some mountainous foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The moonlight provides illumination to the towering, massive clouds overhead, and the orangeish headlight brightening of the lower portion of clouds is observable.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 10 frames.

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  • Moon rise over Grand Canyon with smoke clearing…

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    Scene notes:

    …out and high clouds moving rapidly, moonlit The full moon rises behind high clouds. The view from this light is dynamic, made more so by smoke from nearby fires. The smoke is seen as a nebulous cloud, only thinly veiling this view. Stars are seen above the clouds. How is this a moonrise? The long exposure of the individual frames allows for more light to be captured in the image, enough to be of comparable levels to a sunrise at certain times. The view of the canyon is deep, the point of view is from Duck on a Rock viewpoint facing northeast.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 13 frames.

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  • Clouds passing quickly overhead lake lit by moon

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    Scene notes:

    The vast Crater Lake is under heavy rolling low clouds that part for the moonlight to briefly shine on the water and allow the few stars visible to shine through.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 26 frames.

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  • Nighttime at Mono Lake, tufas on water in front of and below very light clouds

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    Scene notes:

    Tufas are the unique stone structures shown at left in the moonlight, which also make visible the light and fluffy low-level clouds cast night shadows over the distant desert landscape, with stars present.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 27 frames.

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  • Night in a snowy valley with a road and traffic under clouds


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