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Cotton-like Clouds Over The Cross (Taos New, 2015)

6s 4K UHD 29.97fps Architecture Taos New, Mexico 2015
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About this clip

Shot in 2015 in Taos, New Mexico, this home movie clip captures a serene upward view of a white stone archway topped with a carved cross. Cotton-like clouds drift across a soft blue sky, creating a peaceful, almost spiritual atmosphere. The scene blends natural beauty with architectural detail, offering a quiet moment of reflection. This vintage-style footage, with its cinematic quality and nostalgic tone, is ideal for documentaries, inspirational content, or artistic projects exploring faith, landscape, and memory.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for a Taos, New Mexico travel edit, faith documentary, architecture insert, brand film, or social cut needing a quiet upward view of a white cross against clouds.
Edit role
The six-second clip works as a short cutaway, reflective transition, or closing beat between wider Taos street, hotel, chapel, or facade shots.
Visual details
A white stepped stone archway fills the lower frame, a simple white cross rises above it, dark hills show through the rectangular opening, gray clouds sit in a pale blue sky, and no people are visible.
Shot mechanics
The ground camera looks upward from below the arch, keeping the cross near the upper center with the facade in the foreground, sky in the background, and no clear movement evident from the still frames.

Tags

upward shotcloudy skywhite stone archwaywhite crosscarved out of the topcotton-likecloudscrossbuildingslandmarksTAOS new mexico Cdigitalhome videostunningcinematicfootageartbuy

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
6s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
39 MB
Location
Taos New, Mexico
Year filmed
2015
Published
May 2015

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Opening frame of a white stepped archway in Taos, New Mexico, with a cross above the roofline, gray clouds overhead, dark hills through the opening, and no visible people.
The first second introduces the upward composition of the white arch and cross against cloud cover. (0:00)
At one second, the cross remains near the top of the white Taos archway while a darker cloud mass sits above it and no visible people appear in frame.
This frame holds the cross and cloudy sky as the main graphic elements for a reflective insert. (0:01)
At two seconds, the Taos arch fills the lower half of the frame, with the white cross silhouetted lightly against gray-blue sky and no visible people.
The frame shows the clip's clean architectural silhouette, with the cross separated from the clouded sky. (0:02)
Close upward view of a white archway and cross below clouds.

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.