Flying over unique sand dunes and shrublands…

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  • Flying over burned trees to distant waterfall…

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    Scene notes:

    …as the shadows rise late in the day on mountain cliffs. This UAS clip with a three second interval flies onto quickly rising shadows from the steep cliffs. Much of the forest is burned, flying under below, the trees recently browned and scorched from the heat where the forest once was alive. Centered is a medium-sized waterfall and creek, which the camera flies to. A blue sky has a few receding mid-level clouds. The wilderness area has sheer cliffs of several hundred feet. The terrain is mostly without soil and only stone with some winter snow still on the upper ridge in one area.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 21 frames.

  • 1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…

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    Scene notes: Appearing to rotate, it is the Earth that spins. Comet Neowise passed by Earth in the summer of 2020. The comet’s tail is a fine contrail in the starry sky. Near the horizon, where it seems stationary in the rotating sky, the frame is enlarged using digital pan ‘n scan, a nineties term, meaning digital zoom. The extra resolution of the original images allows this. Meteorites can be observed in digital frames, as well as airplanes, zooming by in just a few frames.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 28 frames.
  • Panning past a tree trunk to a forest hillside in the afternoon

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    Scene notes:

    A lichen-covered tree is panned past, towards a steep downward slope of a mossy-floored evergreen forest. Shadows pass the ground as they move with the sun’s angle later into the day. At clip’s end, a blue pond far below is seen in the upper-right frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 23 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Panning past icicles and moss in the forest where shadows move

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    Scene notes:

    Panning right, the icicles the frame is moving over drip as they slowly melt, and the shadows from the trees move over the snow and mossy ground; and a diagonal trunk, leaning from the hillside, casts a shadow across the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 2 frames.

  • 6 of 10 | Sierra Nevada Mountain range and mid-day clouds

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    Scene notes:

    An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    4 seconds and 23 frames.