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Sun going down over Icelandic ocean flowing under clouds lit by light

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The ocean flows hundreds of feet below, with the foreground the edge of a grassy cliff, initially comprising four-tenths of the frame. The frame pans upwards as the sun goes down, illuminating some of the stratus clouds from below. They are blown in the strong ocean winds, the same ones pushing the waves far below. The sun is shown going below the horizon. In the distance on the left, another headland of Iceland is apparent.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
16 seconds and 18 frames.

Silhouetted hill side by a city suburb at night

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What makes these scudding lower clouds so bright? Lights from nearby Walnut Creek impose their light from below on them, incandescent and brightest where the city itself is. The brightened clouds silhouette the trees of the hillside, as airplanes pass overhead rapidly. The sky has stars, and their number pales in comparison to the city lights in the landscape below on the lower-right of the frame. Now clip# NGT087.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
4 seconds and 23 frames.

Time-lapse of colorful AltoCumulus clouds scattering

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The sun sets below as lower clouds float quickly and change as they make their way past the camera overhead in the illumination of the evening sun, colors shifting as time moves on to the ‘blue hour’.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 17 frames.

6 of 7 | Napali Coast beach sunset scene

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Scene notes:

A continuation of another clip (not in chronological order). The clouds will begin to glow as the sun comes out. High clouds cast shadows on the background headlands until the sun goes ‘below’ them in the sky. When this occurs, the foreground beach and ocean, as well as the middle and parts of the background, come fully into light. The clouds high in the sky are Cirrus.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
14 seconds and 8 frames.

Vivid colorful light rays on clouds from mountain peak of Mt Whitney

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Light rays at sunset. Crepuscular rays fall from high humidity on mountaintops. The sun glows on the clouds as it sets behind Mt Whitney and the mountain ridge. The middle and background dims. The sunbeams shift as the clouds move and the sun sets below. The vivid, sharp rays are defined by the staggered peaks.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 25 frames.

2 of 2 | Altostratus clouds cloaking the sun at dusk with scattering of color

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Scene notes:

Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be more Cirrocumulus when shined on by the sun below the horizon. A very distant mountain of the coastline in Oregon is backlit and made to look so small by the very colorful sky above with the colors of orange, pink and red, made better by a clear, flat, and blue patch of sky for contrast.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 17 frames.

Mid and upper-level clouds shine and fade at sunset

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Floating past, a rapidly deteriorating Cumulus congestus (towering cloud) is absorbed by the slightly dryer air it moves into. Above, many layers of thinner clouds and medium-thick clouds also transform in the rapidly setting sun, which is out of frame at right the sky darkens, but brighter portions of clips can always be trimmed for use.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds.

Orographic effect in action above Yosemite Valley in winter along river

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Clouds drop precipitation as snow in this valley that is the classic Yosemite experience. This clip is the continuation of a clip from Day. Trees, appearing at first glance to be following the clouds up the snowy slopes, cover much of the left frame. A giant monolith, partially covered in mist, appears in the left third, indescribable. A sheer rock face on the right is acting as a blocker for clouds. Farther away, another sheer cliff face is appearing to hold back the cloud flow, all this on a winter landscape.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 16 frames.