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…a medium for optical halo illusion around the high sun. The continuation of another clip.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 13 frames.
2 of 2 | High Cirrus, low-density clouds provide…
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2 of 2 | High Cirrus, low-density clouds provide…
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Vibrant alpenglow fades behind mountains of Jasper at sunset with snowy cliffs
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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.
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2 of 10 | Sierra Nevada Mountain range and mid-day clouds
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Towering congestus clouds, benefiting slightly from orographic lift, float from the peaks of the southern Sierra Nevada range. As tall as the mountains they seem to stand on, they transform as they grow and lose energy away from the peaks, evaporating. On these snowy mountains, their shadows travel. Under the blue sky, which is four-fifths of the frame, high Cirrus clouds move the opposing direction.
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Morning virga clouds with cirrus mixed around
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High level clouds with some streaking; ice crystals slowly spreading out in lines as the strong jet stream pushes them along rapidly overhead with low transformation.
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3 of 7 | Napali Coast beach sunset scene
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On the way to sunset in Kauai, by the Napali Coast, multiple layers of clouds move. These clouds quickly roil away from the camera and seemingly following the headlands are on the medium side of density, but they do not need to be heavy to foretell rain is on the way when it’s so humid. Observe the distant layer of headlands which seems to be different layer in the background, slightly glowing. This is due to the moisture in the air. The beach is visible on a small area of the lower left, and the ocean has many small waves rushing in.
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11 seconds and 14 frames. -
Ascending Mount Shasta, California, late in the day above the fog facing north
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The UAS ascends, and a nearby fog layer passes by. Mt Shasta is seen in the morning light stretching out, it’s two peaks fully draped in a fresh winter snow. The morning sky is a bright blue color against the peaks. There are a few distant high clouds. The unique perspective of the mountain is simply not available from the ground.
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11 seconds and 14 frames. -
Calm ocean sun goes behind higher level clouds
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The ocean, comprising one quarter of the frame, is uncommonly calm due to the Gulf of Mexico, largely shaped and enclosed from the turbulence of the greater Atlantic Ocean by the peninsula that is Florida. The brighter clouds in the upper layer in the distance on the horizon make a glowing layer as a backdrop to lower mid-level clouds, their shapes delicately and finely lit in the dying sunlight. A duo of humans rapidly pass through the frame in the ocean early in the clip.
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Over Canyonlands viewpoint, the moon slowly
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…sets with Cirrus clouds moving overhead. Cirrus clouds, a thin layer of water 40,000 or so feet in the sky, pass quickly by with motion-blur due to the long exposure, which allows the illumination of the moon to be magnified on the desert vista below. Since it is so far below, the Canyonlands view stretches a vast distance, and the many stars of the night sky move as the Earth spins, and the moon with it, towards the horizon and out of the clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 11 frames.