Back in 2016, photographer Phil Mosby left his camera overnight on a mountainside overlooking Lake Tahoe and had it snap photos over 9 hours. What resulted was this strangely beautiful timelapse that shows the setting moon, the Milky Way, Perseids meteors, and smoke from nearby wildfires.
San Francisco was blanketed by an apocalyptic orange sky last week due to the smoke from wildfires across California. This 24-second time-lapse shows what it was like to take off from the city and climb into the thick smoke layer.
Last month, smoke from wildfires in northern California caused San Francisco to have the worst air quality in the world for a number of days. Here’s a 2-minute drone video that offers an eye-opening aerial look at what the city looked like during those days.