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Grand Tetons morning under layers of fair weather and flat clouds brightening

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Grand Tetons morning under layers of fair weather and flat clouds brightening

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Orographic effects on clouds can be varied. One tried and true method of identifying orographic clouds: do the clouds appear around the mountaintops and nowhere else? This affirmative can safely indicate an orographic effect: when the landscape influences the clouds directly. The sunrise requires no clouds at all to filter through at full radiant intensity. Slowly shifting clouds with little to no transformation over time can indicate very stable air. The mountain range brightens in the morning sun.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
32 seconds and 26 frames.
Near Mt Whitney are low clouds building close on…

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…rocky, snowy winter peaks. Symmetrical slopes dominate the frame, with rocks and small boulders among evergreens that lead up to near the very tips of these mountain tops. With light, low rolling clouds pouring over and piling on these steep slopes, jagged, snowy peaks poke out like jigsaw teeth.
On distant Colorado peaks and valleys roll shadows of the building clouds

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Low clouds are attempting to build on the Grand Tetons in the early daylight. The peaks are low on glacial ice, due to late summer.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
6 seconds and 26 frames.
Panning on a winter alpine forest, lake, and mountains

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An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
5 seconds and 9 frames.
Few scattered clouds over Grand Teton and alpine pond

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Classic ‘arete’ shaped mountaintops above a conifer-surrounded lake, the three peaks in full sunlight with only a minimal cloud or two and barely two gentle breezes on the pristine, still water. Time-lapse length (at 30 fps): 5 seconds and 1 frame.
1 of 2 | Very rapid drone ascent on rocky landscape, mountain peaks

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The continuation of another clip.

Light upper-level clouds float over Mt Whitney in a natural auditorium

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Cirrus clouds float undisturbed over aretḗ (French for this terrain feature which has no English counterpart) mountain peaks (center). The southern facing cliffs (right) are largely free of snow, while others still retain a great deal of it. Cornices shed fresh snow in high wind (middle peaks). The sky comprises a third of the frame, with the sun visible late clip.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 16 frames.

Lower density clouds, fluffy over Yosemite Valley around noon, making shadows

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Left to right: El Capitan, a massive monolith that’s a kilometer in height and straight rock face. The snowy area tucked away behind El Capitan is Cloud’s Rest. Then Half Dome, the cross-sectioned dome monolith. Sentinel Rock is the slope which is in front of Half Dome. Bridalveil Falls is closer. Low clouds float and transform on the forest valley floor and all the aforementioned features.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 2 frames.