WESTMINSTER COLORADO-2015: Lone Duck Swimming In Calm Water On A Clear Day
About this clip
A lone duck glides across calm water on a clear day in Westminster, Colorado,. The serene scene showcases natural wildlife in a peaceful outdoor setting, with gentle ripples reflecting the bright daylight. This vintage footage offers a nostalgic, cinematic glimpse of nature, ideal for nature documentaries, ambient background, or reflective storytelling. The quiet moment evokes calmness and simplicity, perfect for editorial use, nature-themed content, or nostalgic montages.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for wildlife documentaries, Colorado nature edits, ambient brand films, and quiet social cuts that need a lone duck crossing still water without people in frame.
- Edit role
- Works as a short cutaway, reflective transition, or closing beat where a six-second insert of slow water movement can separate busier lake or outdoor scenes.
- Visual details
- A single duck swims across gray-green calm water, with small ripples and a faint wake behind it, soft reflections in the background, muted daylight, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 44 MB
- Location
- Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- Feb 2015
Still Frames From This Clip
3 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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