… clouds float by overhead and on mountains. A wide-angle view from a hillside overlooking an aspen grove. Behind, mountains rise on both sides with low clouds and shadows moving past. The same grove is featured in this clip series from a closer vantage point in three other clips.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 14 frames.
Wide-angle view of Sierra Nevada and the deep blue sky above, panning leftward over the shrublands and dynamically shadowed landscape from clouds passing by at low, medium, and high altitude.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 26 frames.
An example of a partly sunny sunrise. The morning dawn sheds light on the mountain range, illuminating it in filtered sunlight, but halfway through the clouds have moved in between mountain and sun. Shadows of the clouds move in. Above and to the west, more clouds, a system extending so far off westward it is still night on earth where it reaches.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 2 frames.
Clouds float by overhead and on mountains. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted. A two second interval is used.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
10 seconds and 26 frames.
… and blue sky, facing east at sunset to Mt Shasta. Here a low-level cloud strand streak off the summit, and mid-level altostratus clouds catch the colorful sunset light. The mountain (lower left) is snow-covered and stands beyond a foothill of Manzanita bushes and shrubs, as well as distant evergreen Conifers.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
43 seconds and 2 frames.
Medium and lower-level clouds, as well as a small ‘scudding’ layer that is halfway up the mountain’s slopes, transform all along this multicolored mountain and arid landscape of yellows, reds, and whites of snow pack on eroded cliff faces and meltwater channels (center of frame at beginning of clip).
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 15 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.
Panning digitally upwards, while the mountains display four levels of cloud cover, with two on its peaks or flank. Altocumulus appears to follow the low clouds caught on the peaks, with the same amount of evaporation once over. The fourth layer is the high-altitude Cirrostratus, a layer of thicker Cirrus, not affected by the lower mountains.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 20 frames.