Castellanus clouds (castle top clouds) are named for their towering appearance; these mid-level clouds have the most intricate and brilliant lighting while shapeshifting above the wild forest hills at sunset, oranges, golds, pinks, purples, and pale blues.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 21 frames.
A clip divided by an exposure adjustment. The storm (right)moves into view as the daylight wanes, and the desert landscape with its red clay dims. In the distance three sharply pointed hills have eroded to the point where one tiny peak stands out on each mound, rock piles evenly spread around from crumbling.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 21 frames.
In a sky that is perfectly clear of clouds, a small mountain valley with a single ridgeline sloping downwards gently further in the distance, which is lit by the sun slightly longer than the foreground. The sky quickly turns dark into a night sky, with lights from cars on a road passing, and planes flying. Over the course of the clip, several hours pass. Facing east at sunset and blue hour is less typical if this collection.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
16 seconds and 6 frames.
Telephoto time-lapse with 1 second interval. The sun is observed at the ocean with a short exposure to capture the shape as it moves behind clouds. The sky is dark once the sun sets. The last few seconds remind one of a liquid droplet as the sun moves through more and more atmosphere on the far edges of visibility. Slivers of a long-distant cloud deep in the Pacific Ocean are completely silhouetted.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
22 seconds and 12 frames.
The continuation of another clip.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 8 frames.
A desert scene in Canyonlands National Park, Needles district. Heavy clouds are overhead in this late-afternoon scene, and the shadows go over the foreground. In the background, around four tenths of the way up the frame, are the jagged needle-like formations this district is named after. The area around the needles is hike-able after a road that is relatively inaccessible.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 3 frames.
… in the distance over barn, a strange formation, a slow vortex. An atlas cedar guards over a barn, which seemingly has a small rainbow right next to it in the left portion of the frame. A meadow comprises an eighth of the frame, under growing shade from the setting sun, look west. Observed is a cloud that is raining, known as a ‘Cumulonimbus’ cloud. These clouds are chaotic in many ways from the knock-on effects that are local from so much air moving in different directions. It is eventually inevitable that an ‘eddy’ in the sky, or a small vortex, will sometimes form. This funnel-shaped cloud is by no means dangerous, as its spin only resolves to the naked eye in time-lapse.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
20 seconds and 19 frames.
A nice spring day with modest lower-level clouds. Their fine definitions create sharp shadows to move over the woods and cypress trees below and beyond in this vast vista. All the way to the horizon the trees cover the gentle hills, which gently rise where the view limits. On the top half of the frame, the medium-small clouds are herd-like in the movements. The wind seems to caress the foreground treescape.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
21 seconds and 3 frames.