TAOS NEW MEXICO-2015: Dark Gray Cross Against White Clouds On A Clear Day
About this clip
This clip captures a striking dark gray cross silhouetted against a bright white cloud formation on a clear day in Taos, New Mexico. The minimalist composition highlights the contrast between the stark cross and the soft, billowing clouds, creating a contemplative and serene visual. This vintage home movie footage offers a quiet moment of natural and architectural beauty, ideal for spiritual, emotional, or scenic storytelling. The 5-second clip is perfect for use in documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic montages.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for a documentary, travel edit, faith-focused insert, agency mood reel, or social cut needing a Taos New Mexico detail with a dark cross against bright cloud cover.
- Edit role
- The 6-second shot works as a quiet cutaway, reflective transition, or visual beat between broader Taos street, hotel, chapel, or architecture footage.
- Visual details
- A dark cross rises above a rounded adobe-colored foreground wall, with two vertical poles, tree branches, a low building edge, white clouds, blue sky, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 6s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- File size
- 42 MB
- Location
- Taos New, Mexico
- Year filmed
- 2015
- Published
- May 2015
Still Frames From This Clip
2 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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