Morning rainbow over Sacramento at dawn

Tag: dawn

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

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    Scene notes:

    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.

  • 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.

  • Dawn over water, a partial rainbow over inlet, near Svalbarðseyri, and Akureyri, Iceland

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    On a hill view just north of Akureyri, Iceland. Looking across the inlet to mountainous landscapes in a fog layer of stratus cloud. The low clouds move along, and a partial rainbow briefly forms in the sky from precipitation. The dawn is pinkish on the low clouds, facing west at sunrise, away from the sun. A three second interval is used.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds.

  • Morning dawn heralds glowing pink medium alt clouds…

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    Scene notes: …with low meandering or desert wind. In this rapidly brightening scene that takes place in the high desert of southeast California, upper-level clouds brighten past the exposure as the sky quickly brightens. Extremely fine and subtle details of the lower parts of these mid-level clouds are illuminated from below the horizon. This is due to the fact that the Earth, round, allows the light to enter into the atmosphere at angles low. This light is shown as reddening through atmosphere, with the distinctive pinkness of a sunrise.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 22 frames.