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From the Space Needle, shot in 2006.
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Seattle downtown at night
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Seattle downtown at night
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Late day clouds over Miami 1 of 2
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Slow zoom out called pan ‘n scan. Afternoon clouds of the southern Florida coastline with Miami’s skyline dwarfed; magic hour is close at the end of the clip when the light begins to fade behind clouds.
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Shadows rising on San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge…
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…overbright areas fade as the sun sets away from the point-of-view. Looking east in the late afternoon, you can observe ‘the City’ from afar, behind the long red bridge. Wind on water currents make ripples, as is the traffic on the 101 Highway that spans the bridge. Shadows become longer as the sun sets first on the foreground grassy slopes, and then the ocean bay.
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Vancouver, cityscape Canada under clouds
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Slowly panning on distant mountain background with Mt Seymour mountain. North of Vancouver, the view is under building lower-level clouds. In the lower valley behind some trees, downtown Vancouver can be seen, as can a rotating construction crane, far in the distance at lower-right. A three second interval, the sky is about one tenth blue at times. Significant uplift from wind on Mt Seymour drives these clouds. This is called the orographic effect.
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2 of 2 Light shafts created by taller altocumulus…
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…mid-level clouds at sunrise. UAS hovering at altitude at dawn. Altocumulus Castellanus are ideal clouds for creating light rays that persist. First, their presence in the sky indicates moisture at the medium levels. As droplets glow in the sunlight, areas of thicker cloud create the shade necessary for the ‘light ray’ to show with definition. Since Castellanus clouds have these small patches of thick density, stark sunbeams are cast toward the camera’s general point of view.
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10:25. -
Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline
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A nearly five second clip of a sun setting far in the distant hills behind a city’s skyline. A highway is seen with traffic moving on it far into the shaded urban landscape below, complete with the UC Davis Health Center and hospital, traffic light quickly alternating traffic flow. The UAS captures two thirds of the sky in the upper frame. Behind clouds, the shadows demonstrate a takeover of the sky, where the sunlight once glowed on the lower fringes of these mid-level clouds.
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Hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline…
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…under cirrus, cirro-cumulus after sunset, flowing high elevation clouds. At these elevations, clouds are formed with tiny frozen crystals. As the movement is demonstrated in the one most aesthetically pleasing cloud, there is a flowing that is unique to the temperature of the cloud, highlighted with beautiful pinks. Sunsets like these where the sky illuminates clouds ‘from below’ prove the Earth is a sphere and not flat. The sunlight would be abruptly blocked by a sudden end to the Earth’s crust if it ended somewhere in the ocean. Instead, the light goes through more and more atmosphere the higher it reaches into the sky, until the sun sets from the cloud’s perspective as well.
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Drone hovering into dusk, Sacramento skyline under…
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… after-sunset lighting on high clouds. This mid-level cloud layer dominating the sky with small patches has clouds resembling Lenticulars. If the layer of cloud were thicker in its altitude, the lens shapes would be more apparent. A wispy row of Cirrus is absorbed in the cooling sky, pink colors fading with them, and below on the surface, a highway curves by a skyline of Sacramento, and extend west with lights of individual cars passing by in hyper speed; 90 x 60 mph = 12900mph apparent ‘playback’ speed. 90 represents the speed of the time-lapse over ‘real’ time. The Time-lapse length of the clip at 30 fps is eight seconds and ten frames.