Start the year with a refreshing look at the beauty and grandeur of natural landscapes across the Western United States and Canada and enhance your Digital Cinema Library of iconic scenes delivered in Ultra High Definition (UHD). Turn a new leaf in your collection and add new scenes or acquire a new eScape 2.0 Virtual Window with an 8, 12, or 16-hour selection of feature length scenes that bring you to the edge of wild, undisturbed nature.
Our videographers have travelled, negotiated rugged terrain, and camped out in secluded terrain to assemble an inspiring collection of spectacular vistas and relaxing settings. Witness the playful meandering of snowmelt creeks across the highest points in Steens Mountain (over 9,000 ft.) in southeastern Oregon, or sit along the grassy banks of Lilly Lake, whose vibrant yellow lily pads cover its glass-like surface along the beautiful Steens Backcountry Byway.
Travel north to enjoy the melodious water slopes of the Canadian Rockies at Banff National Park, as well as bask in the crystalline murmurs of undulating creeks along verdant trails that crisscross lower elevations. Complete your spring and early summer tour of refreshing waterscapes with scenes from Sinks Canyon, including the power of rushing whitewater in Sinks Cave, as well as a beautiful vantage point by the Popo Agie Stream in Big Sky Country Wyoming.
Explore the full scene descriptions below and Contact our team of Sky Designers to upgrade your eScape Digital Cinema Virtual Window with new digital library scenes (sold in digital sets of 4 scenes). Increase your current play list from 8 hours to 12 or 16 hours with a simple system upgrade. Sky Factory’s proprietary 4K nature footage is uniquely filmed in feature length (60+ minutes per scene), always in real-time without special visual effects or a music soundtrack.
We include the natural soundscape from the original location in artfully composed unedited sequences. eScape 2.0 scenes are designed to be viewed as architectural points-of-view in a unique vertical format that makes our Digital Cinema Virtual Window’s dynamic landscapes the most beautiful, biophilic illusions of nature.
New eScape Scenes – Add to your Digital Cinema Library
Wildhorse Creek, Steens Mountain
Cold spring melt snakes down over boulders and shallow pools along the subalpine grassland on top of Steens Mountain. Wildhorse Creek finds its way along the gradient into Kiger Gorge and the Alvord Valley almost 5,000 ft. below. In the upper montane (<8,200 ft.), the highest elevation at Steens, wildgrass meadows overlook the deep canyons and gorges cut by prehistoric glaciers. Behind the audible rush of the stone cold water, the high winds rustle among Lemon’s needlegrass (Achnatherum lemmonii), Steens Mountain Thistle (Cirsium peckii), and an assortment of graminoids, perennial forbs, and rock crevice species.
UHD – 85 minutes
National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon
Lilly Lake, Steens Backcountry
A tranquil view of Lily Lake, covered with mid summer yellow pond lilies (Nyphar polysepala) and Hayden’s Sedge along the lake’s perimeter makes for a place of repose along the 52-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
A gentle breeze sways groves of Douglas fir as migratory birds swoop, hop, and scratch blooming lily pads, hunting for insects and hidden grubs. Rolling clouds drift across big sky country in this secluded section of Frenchglen, Oregon.
UHD – 85 minutes
Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway
Frenchglen, Oregon
Water Slope with Moss Rocks
A clear mountain stream gushes down moss covered rocks glistening with a rich variety of green-brown, yellow-green and reddish-brown varieties whose vast networks help retain water and soil, holding up the steep incline and preventing erosion.
Blooms of Dwarf Fireweed in the background dot the reclining face of this lush mountain slope. Clouds roll over idyllic morning serenity against a treeline of subalpine fir swaying in the occasional winds.
UHD – 63 minutes
Banff National Park,
Alberta, Canada
Flowering Bank and Undulating Creek
On the near bank of this tranquil creek in the lower elevations of the Canadian Rockies, wildflowers spring up along the subalpine shrubs and grasses. Indian Paintbrush with its vibrant red petals and Fringed Grass of Parnassus with its white star-like blooms bring color and life to the peaceful foreground.
In the silent waters, undulating reflections of the sky and tree line on the far bank make for shadowy sketches of pine, larch, spruce, and other trees as the sleepy creek carries wave after wave of glacier melt.
UHD – 56 minutes
Banff National Park,
Alberta, Canada
Sinks Canyon, Wyoming
This close up view of the Sinks Cave in Sinks Canyon reveals the raw power of Wyoming’s Popo Agie River as it pumps about 100 cubic feet of water per second into cracks and crevices in the cavern floor that filters underground in tumultuous waves.
The constant rush of white water as it curls and eddies around thick layers of Madison Limestone disappear just outside our view into the dark crevice, reappearing down canyon in a large pool called “The Rise.”
UHD – 76 minutes
Sinks Canyon, Wyoming
Popo Agie Stream, Sinks Canyon
The upstream view of a Popo Agie Stream, whitewater cascades spill over boulders and rocks as they sink into crystal clear pools only to pour out through crevices, gaps, and pot holes in the riverbed.
On the far side of the steam, Douglas fir, Engelmann spruce, and lodgepole pine stand against a clear cloudless day. The stream path sparkles with luminous rivulets as bubbles and waves reflect the sun. In the foreground, cold glacier water laps against the granite and its deep copper and bronze pebble bed.
UHD – 60 minutes
Sinks Canyon, Wyoming
Sky Factory is the only designer of evidence-based, virtual skylights that also provides continuing education courses on the benefits of biophilic design. Our family of Luminous SkyCeilings, Windows, and Digital Cinema applications are biophilic designed products that provide research-verified, architectural solutions for a range of healthcare and commercial spaces. To find out how Sky Factory can bring the healing presence of nature to your organization, contact us today.
