1 of 2 | Late day Yosemite winter transforming into sunset

Tag: afternoon

  • Grand Tetons, a steep range from a meadow with light ray shadows moving slowly

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    Scene notes:

    Exemplars of aiguille-shaped peaks that travel over a kilometer down, glaciers included. The clouds create crepuscular (afternoon) rays from humidity and shadows. The light shines on some of the slopes. The mountains comprise nine-tenths of the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    6 seconds and 24 frames.

  • Sierra Nevada Mountain range and late-day clouds side-lit and flowing off

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    Scene notes:

    Approximately half the frame is shadowed in a mountain’s shade, with desert plants in the foreground meadow. The clouds flow off the ridge, and every air current can be seen on the outer edges of these clouds, which run aground on the top-left of the frame, billowing, and crawling.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 22 frames.

  • Shade moves slowly on the forest hillside until sunset

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    On the forest floor of a hillside, the late day shadows shift among the branches, leaves, and ferns.
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  • Vast winter viewpoint from Inyo Mountains

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    Scene notes:

    … landscape below with Sierra Nevada range. On the Inyo range east of the Sierra Nevada, one sees deep into the range to the west, countless peaks spanning north-south. A few at right are under stratus clouds, but the large majority are Cirrus fibratus, dense enough to shade the landscape as they pass over the snowy Bristlecone pine-filled hillsides and slopes, which are some of the oldest trees.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Medium dense clouds float overhead and away from POV against a blue sky

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    Scene notes:

    ‘Congestus’ clouds high above in the sky, towering as their namesake suggests, orderly in their column of travel. They cover roughly two thirds to three quarters of the frame throughout. A five second interval is used.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 11 frames.

  • 2 of 3 | Late day high contrast with Lenticular cloud facing east

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    Scene notes:

    The continuation of another clip. The Lenticular clouds are dominant in the sky. Many levels of moisture enable these strange eddies of air currents to be cloaked in visible water. The landscape (nearby mountains) is contributing to the formation of these less common clouds. High above the desert landscape, a sliver of blue sky remains in the beyond, and Cirrus clouds are on the top layer.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 4 frames.