Alongside a forest creek runs a mossy downed tree, and starting this clip, a forest backdrop in the upper-right. Everywhere else, long grass and purple crocus flowers sprang plentifully along the creek bed. The camera pans left along the fallen tree, revealing more moss that is going in and out of moving shadows from the day’s progression.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 19 frames.
The opening in the forest hillside allows light rays to shine on the grassy ground. Panning downward from where the fog is brightest, the ceiling provides the sunlight needed to filter through the trees and create such intricate shadows and glow.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 13 frames.
… passing through trees, hits the forest plants on the floor A stunning forest floor is illuminated by radiant intensity of the sun. The fog bank’s ceiling is just above this old-growth forest. Expanding out from the top left, the sun’s rays pour out, filtered perfectly at times by the shifting fog.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 25 frames.
An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 18 frames.
Thin branches stretch into the center-frame from outer edges, as the close Evergreens shape these sunbeams glowing on the fog just above. The blue sky peaks through in small places. A mossy stone runs along the slope of the hillside close by with the light rays falling upon it. The sun moves, and with it the shade onto the stone and foreground.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
7 seconds and 12 frames.
Mossy stones and boulders illuminated on a hillside by thicker fog-glow. Only traces of blue from sky are observable in the upper-left, the bright ferns and moss becomes gradually shaded.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
6 seconds and 26 frames.
Moss on trees with a rapidly lessening light column on the fog, this area represents the boundary of the fog.
Moving behind the trees to night, the filtered light is caught on the delicate frost to glow in the physically still but temporally altered to enhance the movement of the light colors and angles on the winter forest.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
6 seconds and 13 frames.