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HIDDEN LAKE COLORADO-2016: Top View Of A Sea Of Green Water With A Frozen Part

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States 2016
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About this clip

This home movie captures a top-down view of a hidden lake in Colorado, showcasing a striking contrast between vibrant green water and a frozen section. The natural abstract pattern creates a visually compelling scene, blending cold and warm tones in a serene, untouched landscape. This vintage home movie footage offers a nostalgic, cinematic glimpse of nature’s quiet beauty, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or creative projects exploring environmental contrasts and seasonal change.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for documentary, travel edit, agency mood reel, or environmental brand film needing an overhead Colorado lake detail with green water meeting a frozen surface.
Edit role
Works as a short abstract opener, cutaway, transition, or texture beat between wider Colorado aerials and ground-level town or landscape material.
Visual details
Top-down frames show dark green open water along the upper edge, gray frozen lake ice below it, white broken ice ridges at the boundary, faint cracks, and no visible people.

Tags

seafrozencolddronegreenwatertopviewdefrostedholenaturehidden lake colorado2016b-rollabstracthome moviearthome videostunning

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MOV
File size
40 MB
Location
Hidden Lake, Colorado, United States
Year filmed
2016
Published
Dec 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.

Overhead frame from Hidden Lake, Colorado showing dark green water along the top edge, gray frozen lake ice below, a white broken ice line, and no visible people.
The opening frame establishes the graphic boundary between open water and frozen lake surface. (0:00)
Top-down Hidden Lake, Colorado frame with dark water curving across the upper portion, pale gray ice below, small white ice fragments, and no visible people.
This second moment keeps the lake edge centered as a natural abstract texture for an edit. (0:01)

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.