Cumulus clouds shifting in the dusk light above the Sierras and point of view. It’s blue hour, as the light fades from pink to dull gray, the sky remains blue.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
44 seconds and 25 frames.
The mountain range is bathed in alpenglow, pink ambient lighting. High clouds provide the color, minutes after sunset in the winter. The mountain range is expansive in height and width, and is also defined by striated rock steps, cirques, flutings, fallen seracs, crags, long cornices, ice walls, and summits. The range at right has ice and snow fields as well as rock steps and an aret’e peak. The wide sky composes roughly two thirds of the frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 19 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.
A slower time-lapse with a one second interval used. The sun moves down in the highly humid sky, which is glowing from the sun’s radiant intensity. When the sun moves below the horizon and frame, the few lingering distant clouds remain on the very stable air with almost no wind.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
53 seconds.
… sunset as blue surrounds gray forms. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted. Blue hour on the Sierras, with low clouds showing terrain (orographic) effects of landscapes below, as air currents move in patters and are effected by changes of large scale on the ground. Here, the Sierras end in what is called normal faulting, and this has an effect on the clouds. The intricate movement is highlighted against a pristine blue dusk behind the clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
43 seconds and 2 frames.
The continuation of another clip, on a motion-controlled dolly, moving. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
27 seconds and 11 frames.
On high clouds and forest hills, the sun sets. The view extends all the way to Mt June, on the far-right of the frame. Partial sunset.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
33 seconds and 21 frames.
Extreme close-up view of the setting sun. Optical distortion from the atmosphere, and extremely distant clouds from an unknown distance span the length of the orb while it is nearest the horizon.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
40 seconds and 20 frames.