DENVER COLORADO-2016: The Reflection of City Lights on Water in the Dark
About this clip
Shot in Denver, Colorado in 2016, this home movie captures the mesmerizing reflection of city lights on dark water at night. The shimmering glow of urban illumination dances across the surface, creating a cinematic and abstract interplay of light and shadow. This intimate, low-light scene evokes a sense of romance and inspiration, perfect for storytelling, emotional montages, or modern cityscapes. The footage offers a nostalgic, cinematic feel with a focus on ambient beauty and urban atmosphere.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Useful for Denver travel edits, documentary night sequences, agency mood reels, brand films, or social cuts that need distant city lights reflected on dark water.
- Edit role
- A short atmospheric cutaway, transition beat, or quiet closer between brighter city or family scenes, using the dark water and thin horizon lights as visual texture.
- Visual details
- The frames show a very dark body of water at night with a low strip of city lights across the horizon, small white, yellow, and red points, and vertical reflections on the water, with no visible people.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 3840 × 2160
- Frame rate
- 29.97 fps
- Duration
- 5s
- Codec
- H.264 MOV
- File size
- 40 MB
- Location
- Denver, Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2016
- Published
- Nov 2016
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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