The sunrise is displayed on Grand Canyon, light slowly brightening. The clouds above in the shifting sunlight transform wildly in the new light, and then gradually lose previous semblance of color. Instead of being lit from below, the clouds above are lit from above shortly after dawn. The desert canyon vista that stretches many miles is eventually illuminated like any other day.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
50 seconds and 4 frames.
On an overlook at Bryce Canyon in winter. A low-level stratus layer slowly gives way to light. Similar to another clip with more lighting, the snow begins to brighten near the end of the clip. The lowlands glow in the sun’s radiant intensity. This means they both absorb some of the light and emit it in all directions.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
44 seconds and 2 frames.
Winter on Crater Lake: the snow covering the landscape is fresh. The vast lake is not entirely in the shadows of the clouds, as a break in the layer of thick low-level cover reveals light on the lake. The turbulent winds blow on the water, making their marks on the surface as they travel, along with the shadows. Blue sky patches are slowly covered by dawn clouds, which clearly precipitate on the opposing side of the caldera, near Wizard Hat Island. The ridge that comprises the crater’s rim, a drop of 100s of feet, is a winter forest.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
43 seconds and 12 frames.
The mid-level clouds above Grand Tetons in the sunlight at dusk. The hill in between mountains and foreground is shadowed as the sun sets. The very sharp peaks of the range become silhouetted. A three second interval is used.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 28 frames.
Very small details in the sky in the desert dawn with a sliver of land. The interval used is one second. Slower clips can be more useful for applications such as relaxation and biofeedback. The mid-level clouds are positioned so other clouds do not block the light on the way to their underside.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
41 seconds and 28 frames.
Pink light of the morning sun as it rises above the horizon off-frame from the east. A few fleeting clouds from the night before linger, as the scene brightens, and day breaks over the fields which comprises nearly half the frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
18 seconds and 22 frames.
White spruce and other species of trees in the northern Canadian boreal forest stand below the pre-dawn sky, comprising about ninety percent of the frame. Mid-level clouds are quite detailed further near the horizon behind tree shapes and are more nebulous and stratified overhead closer turn more vibrant purples and pinks. The camera faces the west at sunrise at clip’s end.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
16 seconds and 26 frames.
Almost silhouetted in the morning blue hour, stones of the Alabama Hills in California lay large in the in the foreground of the Sierra Nevada mountains, which are pink and brightening in the sunrise light.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
16 seconds and 2 frames.