HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: View Of A Few Shining Lights In The Thick Dark Of The
About this clip
Shot in 2016, this home movie captures a top-down view of a few glowing lights piercing through the thick darkness of a hidden lake in Colorado. The scene evokes a mysterious, cinematic mood with shimmering points of light against a deep, shadowy backdrop. This intimate, amateur footage offers a rare glimpse of nighttime stillness and natural beauty, perfect for abstract visuals, atmospheric transitions, or nostalgic storytelling. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or creative projects exploring solitude and light in darkness.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for a documentary, travel edit, agency mood reel, brand film, or social cut needing a dark aerial night view from Hidden Lake, Colorado with isolated lights in frame.
- Edit role
- Works as a short atmospheric insert, transition, or closing beat between brighter daytime aerials, using a few seconds of darkness and small points of light to reset the pace.
- Visual details
- The frames show a very dark top-down night view with scattered orange, white, and red lights, faint road shapes, shadowed building forms, and no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 5s
- Codec
- H.264 MOV
- File size
- 39 MB
- Location
- Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2016
- Published
- Oct 2016
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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