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Grand Tetons morning under layers of fair weather and flat clouds brightening

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Orographic effects on clouds can be varied. One tried and true method of identifying orographic clouds: do the clouds appear around the mountaintops and nowhere else? This affirmative can safely indicate an orographic effect: when the landscape influences the clouds directly. The sunrise requires no clouds at all to filter through at full radiant intensity. Slowly shifting clouds with little to no transformation over time can indicate very stable air. The mountain range brightens in the morning sun.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
32 seconds and 26 frames.

Partial rainbow on Hawaii coastline and jungle mountains with beach in foreground

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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.

Over a forest and suburban farm pond…

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…light shafts shine momentarily on congestus afternoon clouds in the late afternoon, by a pond and a typical wetland in Oregon. The clouds are outlined by the sun, with some sunbeams being defined by the shifting cloud shapes, which are lifting and meandering on slow or still wind. A higher layer is less influenced by the heating of the ground.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 15 frames.

Ocean focused on gentle beach with clouds in distance

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A shallow and calm beach typical of the Gulf, three quarters of the frame is ocean with building tropical clouds in the distance, about one sixth of the frame, under a blue sky in the remaining six. A distant tree line far on the beach with tropical trees and signs of people on the left. Fine details of the ripples of sand under the clear water with caustic lights on the floor, the water is aquamarine up-close. 30 fps Time-lapse length:10 seconds, 22 frames

Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cloud…

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…Clouds still lit from below. Hovering above the city (bottom-right) Sacramento. Mid-level clouds with light from below the horizon’s sunlight.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds.

Half-frozen Tioga Lake view of Mt Lyell…

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… under some very light transforming clouds and shade. North of Yosemite Valley is the highway to connect to the other side of the state. This Tioga Pass Road is closed much of the year due to snowfall. The snowy landscape vista stretches out to Mt Lyell of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range, which passes through the National Park.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
14 seconds and 2 frames.

2 of 2 Above mountains, Mt Whitney at moonrise…

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…the night sky is seen in deep dark colors of stars. After a while the sky awakens as the bright moon just before dawn, sends pink colors captured by long exposure on Mt Whitney and surrounding peaks.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 24 frames.

Ascending on unique rock formations of Alabama Hills in California

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The UAS ascends steadily over a lifeless environment of unique stone formations, with high clouds motionless in the sky. The ground shows no signs of humans, but the sky has a jet contrail pattern. Two hills seem are composed only of very large boulders that cracked into pieces after cooling as magma. The area lives on an active fault zone, and certain hills show where these flows of magma end; in the last 10 million years, these hills have dropped 11000 ft (2750 m) and were once around the height of Mt Whitney. No interval was used with this full motion clip.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 6 frames.