On Mt Pilatus by Lucerne, Switzerland, clouds in winter below

Tag: winter landscape

  • Very slow light shaft moving toward the view on top Bryce Canyon

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    Scene notes:

    On an overlook at Bryce Canyon in winter. A low-level stratus layer slowly gives way to light. Similar to another clip with more lighting, the snow begins to brighten near the end of the clip. The lowlands glow in the sun’s radiant intensity. This means they both absorb some of the light and emit it in all directions.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    44 seconds and 2 frames.

  • Vibrant alpenglow fades behind mountains of Jasper at sunset with snowy cliffs

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    Scene notes:

    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.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 19 frames.

  • Crater Lake early morning in the winter with the wind on water below moving

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    Scene notes:

    Winter on Crater Lake: the snow covering the landscape is fresh. The vast lake is not entirely in the shadows of the clouds, as a break in the layer of thick low-level cover reveals light on the lake. The turbulent winds blow on the water, making their marks on the surface as they travel, along with the shadows. Blue sky patches are slowly covered by dawn clouds, which clearly precipitate on the opposing side of the caldera, near Wizard Hat Island. The ridge that comprises the crater’s rim, a drop of 100s of feet, is a winter forest.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    43 seconds and 12 frames.