ēScape Scene Gallery

Browse our complete catalog of ēScape scenes

Discover the diverse scene gallery of Sky Factory’s ēScape Digital Virtual Window, designed to bring the serenity and beauty of nature into any indoor environment. Each digital scene, from tranquil forest pathways to serene coastal sunsets, is carefully chosen to create a peaceful and natural atmosphere in your space. Whether you’re looking to enhance a healthcare facility, office, or home, ēScape provides a window to nature that promotes relaxation and well-being.

Our high-resolution digital windows offer a dynamic view that mimics real scenic vistas. The ēScape Digital Virtual Window is not only an aesthetic addition but also a functional tool that helps reduce stress and improve mood. Browse our collection to find the perfect natural landscape for your setting and learn how integrating nature into your space can elevate the overall ambiance and comfort.

Flowers & Fields

Flower Creek Closeup, [es2057]

Scene Details

HD – 56 minutes

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

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.

Water Slope With Flowers [es2069]

Scene Details

HD – 63 minutes

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

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.

Moon Rise in Earth Shadow
[es2036]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 65 minutes
Location: Wyoming

In August, the full moon rises through the Belt of Venus, the subtly colored shadow cast by the earth in its own atmosphere. In the peaceful Limestone Mountains of Wyoming, the shadows cast by trees and mountain slowly lengthen and cool the warm, sun washed earth. Then, as the sun finally sets, the earth shadow rises in the eastern atmosphere – just as the moon appears from below the horizon. A few distant clouds reflect back the last color as the earth shadow expands and finally fades into the darkening sky of night.

The chirping of crickets in the silence is occasionally interrupted with other insects, bird songs and distant jet aircraft.

Prairie Dog Village in Summer
[es2043]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 60 minutes
Location: South Dakota

Prairie Dogs have a special fascination for us because of their human-like postures and behavior.

This sequence begins with a prairie dog family and community being alerted to danger by incessant ‘barking’ from an off-screen guard.

After a predator runs across the field and immediate danger disappears, things quiet down and normal life – primarily eating plants, seeds and insects – is resumed.

As time goes on, the visible above-ground number increases until more than a dozen are active – one of whom always remains on alert as guard for the group.

As the afternoon fades into a clear twilight, everyone returns to their underground homes.

Early Summer Prairie
Blazing Star [es2052]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 70 minutes
Location: Iowa

Filmed at a rare prairie remnant in Northwest Iowa, the hypnotic swaying of purple Prairie Blazing Star transmits to us a sense of the gentle summer breezes. Persistent Red-winged Blackbird calls establish unseen territorial boundaries.

Coneflowers, sunflowers, the sound of insects, a visiting Red Admiral butterfly, birds coming and going in the distant willows, all combine to instill the deeply familiar experience of nature’s summer beauty.

Late Summer Chamisa
[es2049]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 79 minutes
Location: Jemez River, New Mexico

Sky Factory’s ēScape is a Digital Cinema Virtual Window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature to interior environments.

Unlike televised nature content, ēScape’s feature-length footage is captured, composed, and framed with the look and feel of a genuine window view.

A typical breezy New Mexico afternoon.

Lakes & Rivers

Sink Hole, Sinks Canyon, Wyoming, [es2066]

Scene Details

HD – 76 minutes

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.”

Little Blitzen River in Summer [es011]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 60 minutes

Noon sunlight filters through the River birch canopy and sparkles on the peaceful creek as it gently streams by. Submerged rocks shape the current’s eddies and add soothing sounds. Occasionally, birds call to each other from nearby trees.

Screw Auger Falls With Birch Lines [es2064]

Scene Details

UHD – 60 minutes

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

A shallow strip of glacier meltwater runs over the granite bedrock in this quiet autumn morning. In the foreground, compressed into the ancient rock, narrow quartz lines mirror two equally thin and white trunks leaning towards each other upriver.

The forest’s makeshift portal beautifully juxtaposes the homothetic (self-referral) growth of birch trees vis-à-vis the hydrothermal crystallization of mineral-rich fluids that precipitate vein formation in course-grained granite. Despite the chasm between temporal scales, the brook’s murmur echoes among the leaves of American Beech and Cherry Birch trees.

Lilly Lake, Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway, [es2058]

Scene Details

HD – 85 minutes

Frenchglen, Oregon

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.

Ocean Notch on the New England Coast [es2055]

Scene Details

UHD – 84 minutes

Acadia National Park, Maine

Framing a distant seascape view, the jagged cliff line on Mount Desert Island reveals its rugged granite coastline. This crisp morning overlooks an ocean notch along the steep coastline where the roar of the tide, among the strongest in the world, shoots up the vertical rock wall and booms inland.

Exposed to the coastal winds, Red and White Spruce, along with White Pine, dot the headland and distant inlets as the tide buffets the rocky shore. Down below, crushed by the surf, broken shells and the skeletons of crabs, mussels, sea urchins and other marine life churn among the pebble and sand detritus.

Autumn Clouds,
Mist and Fog [es2046]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 69 minutes
Location: New Hampshire

In 1840, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal:

“I should wither and dry up if it were not for lakes and rivers. I am conscious that my body derives its genesis from their waters, as much as the muskrat or the herbage on their brink. The thought of Walden [Pond] in the woods yonder makes me supple-jointed and limber for the duties of the day. Sometimes I thirst for it.

There it lies all the year reflecting the sky – and from its surface there seems to go up a pillar of ether, which bridges over the space between earth and heaven.
Water seems a middle element between earth and air. The most fluid in which man can float.

Across the surface of every lake there sweeps a hushed music.”

Thoreau’s transcendental description of his experience of Walden Pond, and the significance of its presence for his daily life (and for the greater life of us all) is not only a refined, even literal, description of the Basin Pond sequences but also a profound statement of the character and significance of biophilic engagement itself – the very purpose of all eScape sequences.

For us, so many years later, with a technology that can capture and display the visual experience of these moments at Basin Pond, it is tempting to describe this sequence as being indescribable, beautiful beyond words – and leave it at that.

Yet, just as Thoreau’s words give clarity and direction to our most refined and sublime experience, so a bit of background may prove helpful in creating context for these stunning visuals. The sequence begins looking southwest on an early October morning. With a storm front entering the area, the night had turned colder than in the past and, before daybreak, included rain. Low clouds, mist and fog continually form in the distance and, moved by gentle winds, hide and reveal a multi-layered landscape and sky that give rise to unimaginable combinations of the earth, water, air and light that bridge “the space between earth and heaven”.

The audio of this sequence contains the ‘music’ of Basin Pond’s early morning: silence, a bit of wind and the occasional Blue Jay.

Summer Creek
[es2053]

Scene Details

Pools of water and pools of dappled light reflect an otherwise unseen sky in this deeply shadowed summer canopy.

While a small waterfall establishes the flow of clear water, it is reflection that reveals the surface motion of water and trees above, both moving in the gentle and occasional breezes of an early summer day.

Midday Mountain
Snow and Water [es2048]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 118 minutes
Location: Banff National Park, Alberta
At about 1,500 meters altitude, waters of the Mistaya River run parallel to and east of the Continental Divide to finally reach the ocean at Hudson Bay.

Here, in the Canadian Rockies, rapidly changing weather and the consequent drama of morning light and shadow is displayed on the sheer mountain slopes and further reflected in the river’s changing surface.

Cloud shadow-patterns from dramatic skies flow over the landscape.

Patches of direct sunlight alternately reveal the layers and contours of ridges, canyons and other features which are then lost again to deep shadow.

The river’s flow and a large eddy move in opposite directions behind wind-blown reeds and grasses.

The whine of occasional mosquitoes is lost in the sound of wind. Crows call to each other in the background.

Popo Agie Stream, Sinks Canyon, [es2060]

Scene Details

HD – 60 minutes

Sinks Canyon, Wyoming

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.

Summer Trout Pool
[es2037]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 56 minutes
Location: Sinks Canyon, Wyoming

Ranging from deep shadow to full sunlight, the reflective rippling mountain pool reveals the constant activity of a school of sizable Rainbow and Brown trout.

The surface of this otherwise silent world is punctuated by flashes of color combined with silhouettes and the occasional splash from a jump for insects.

This sequence is a constantly changing view of the mysterious underwater life that lies beneath the surface – a world not commonly seen.

Summer Mountain Lake
[es2035]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 84 minutes
Location: Wind River Peak, Wyoming

On Wind River Peak in August, the remnant snow fields are illuminated with warm early morning light. As the sun moves higher, it gradually lights up distant forests and then trees on the far shore of the lake.

Breezes pattern the lake with ripples and wavelets. The foreground rock shore reflects back the incoming waves creating delicate counterpoint patterns.

Bird songs, slaps of jumping fish and chattering squirrels add liveliness to the soothing sounds of the lapping waves.

Swallows and a Caspian Tern make cameo appearances.

Mountains

Wildhorse Creek, Steens Mountain [es2070]

Scene Details

HD – 85 minutes

National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon

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.

Summer Morning Squalls on Mistaya River [es2044]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 118 minutes
Location: Banff National Park, Alberta
At about 1,500 meters altitude, waters of the Mistaya River run parallel to and east of the Continental Divide to finally reach the ocean at Hudson Bay.

Here, in the Canadian Rockies, rapidly changing weather and the consequent drama of morning light and shadow is displayed on the sheer mountain slopes and further reflected in the river’s changing surface.

Cloud shadow-patterns from dramatic skies flow over the landscape.

Patches of direct sunlight alternately reveal the layers and contours of ridges, canyons and other features which are then lost again to deep shadow.

The river’s flow and a large eddy move in opposite directions behind wind-blown reeds and grasses.

The whine of occasional mosquitoes is lost in the sound of wind. Crows call to each other in the background.

Platte River in Winter
[es2033]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 66 minutes
Location: Summit County, Colorado

Fresh snowfall is seen blowing off the high mountain ridges into a pure blue sky while melting snow at lower elevations is beginning the annual spring melt.

During the sequence, night surface ice melts as the river’s flow increases.

The view up the Platte River valley, a classic landscape, is accented by the appearance of high cirrus clouds at the end of the sequence.

The sound of water and occasional gusts of wind persist throughout.

Cloud Shadows: Mountain and Desert [es2042]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 88 minutes
Location: Steens Mountain, Oregon

From the East rim of Steens Mountain, the longest escarpment in North America, we look out over the Alvord Desert a mile below. Melting high-altitude snow irrigates the land close to the base of the mountain and reaches out as much as a mile. Once that water is gone, the desert itself, in the mountain’s rain-shadow, almost never receives moisture from rain or snow. Even the occasional late-afternoon thunder shower immediately evaporates.

Similarly, overhead, clouds form from the mountain’s upward deflection of the prevailing winds and cast their shadows on the steep canyon walls. Occasionally the clouds extend beyond the mountain before their moisture is reabsorbed by the rising hot dry air of the desert and they disappear.

As the day progresses, however, more and more cloud shadows make their way further into the desert creating a rich, earth-bound display of the constantly changing cycle of formation and dissolution happening above.

Wind and silence dominate.

Early Morning above Peyto Lake [es2041]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 112 minutes
Location: Banff National Park, Alberta

Looking north in the early morning, Peyto Lake and the entire valley that stretches over 20 miles north are in deep shadow. Nonetheless, the lake reflects the blue of the clear overhead sky. Above, and also extending to the end of the valley, is a standing wind-wave where clouds are forming and dissolving, tinted by the morning sun. Seen from close at hand, like those overhead, these clouds are in the constant motion of formation, while seen from a distance (as are those further up the valley), they seem stationary since they constantly dissolve rather than float eastward.

As light from the rising sun enters the valley, the tops of foreground firs are the first signs of illumination. Next the contours of the ridgeline appear on the slopes and lake surface and then, by the time the lake is lit by direct sunlight its remarkable glacial-green color emerges to contrast with the high-altitude deep blue sky. The sun, continuing to warm the east-facing slope of the valley produces rising warm air to further feed the overhead standing wave of clouds whose shadows slide down the slope but, even by the end of this sequence, almost never manage to cross the lake surface before they dissolve.

The only sounds at this time of day are those of the slowly modulating wind in distant trees and occasional crows, stellar jays, hawks and ground squirrels – separately and in occasional conversation.

Summer Morning Skies
[es2038]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 79 minutes
Location: Medicine Bow Mtns, Wyoming

Beginning with an early morning leaden sky that in most parts of the world would suggest impending rain, reinforced by distant rumbling thunder, the clouds steadily break up to reveal patches of blue sky and occasional streaks of virga – rain that evaporates before reaching the ground.

Even as the sky becomes almost cloud-free, behind, the low, early sun is periodically obscured by moving clouds, causing a play of sunlight and deep shadow on the distant mountains, the intermediate ponderosa pines, and the sage and grass in the foreground.
Wind in the grasses and sage and occasional cameo appearances of sparrows and hawks.

Toward the end of the sequence, the clouds in the Southwest reflect the early morning rose color of cloud-filtered sunlight.

Waterfalls

Screw Auger Falls With Pool [es2065]

Scene Details

UHD – 61 minutes

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Overlooking the top of this 23-foot waterfall at Bear River, a crystal clear pool filled to the brim cascades down the rocks below. Above the grotto’s entrance, the weathered grooves in the rock wall are teeming with lichen and patches of green-brown and yellow-green moss.

The pooling water reflects the morning sky and the branches hovering over the rock-cut basin. Underneath the crystal surface of the pool, pebbles and sand catch the angle of the sun, catching shadows and light underneath the rumble of gushing water.

Late Summer Chamisa
[es2049]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 73 minutes
Location: Popo Agie Falls, Wyoming

Tucked behind the larger of these waterfalls and completely invisible to any outside view is the nest of a pair of Water Ouzels.

Excellent swimmers, these small birds are seen throughout the sequence both hunting for aquatic insects and flying behind the falls to deliver this food to their young.

Characteristically, they often bounce on a rock before making their move.

“Among all the countless waterfalls I have met in the course of ten years’ exploration in the Sierra, whether among the icy peaks, or warm foot-hills, or in the profound yosemitic cañons of the middle region, not one was found without its Ouzel. No cañon is too cold for this little bird, none too lonely, provided it be rich in falling water. Find a fall, or cascade, or rushing rapid, anywhere upon a clear stream, and there you will surely find its complementary Ouzel, flitting about in the spray, diving in foaming eddies, whirling like a leaf among beaten foam-bells; ever vigorous and enthusiastic, yet self-contained, and neither seeking nor shunning your company.”

From: The Mountains of California by John Muir, 1894.

Upper Popo Agie Falls
[es2039]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 68 minutes
Location: Popo Agie Falls, Wyoming

In this sequence, the changing volume of the two waterfalls as they flow out over rock and into the pool below reveal the constant pulse and fluctuations of natural, uncontrolled water.

The patterns of the falls are contrasted with the more dynamic, linked shadow-patterns of the wind-blown aspens on the foreground rocks.

Occasional birds and insects and a cameo chipmunk appearance add yet another even more random pattern of life in the mountains.

Inca Falls, Cadillac Mountains [es2054]

Scene Details

UHD – 93 minutes

Acadia National Park, Maine

The peaceful and audible trickle of water along the this face of Cadillac Mountain Granite displays a wide range of textures on the oldest granite bodies (approx. 420 million years old) in Mount Desert Island.

A feast of colorful texture, the fault lines in the stone, outlined in solid rectangular masses of granite, range from sunbaked sandstone to dark green bronze that glisten with sunlit speckles dancing over thin layers of algae. On the right, green-yellow lichen dots the granite as the wind buffets a treeline of Maine Spruce.

Screw Auger Falls Cave [es2062]

Scene Details

UHD – 77 minutes

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Take a seat next to the main plunge of Screw Auger Falls of Grafton Notch where this overlook captures the roar of whitewater as it falls from the broad granite ledge into the gorge below.

After tumbling from the lip of the granite ledge, often trapping birch logs and other branches, Bear River’s foamy rush slows, meandering through giant boulders and deep pot holes, shallow pools and lichen-streaked grottoes as glacier melt drifts on through the rocky landscape. In the foreground, nascent Sweet Birch while across the chasm, a solitary Eastern White Pine sways in the wind.

Other Scenes

Albuquerque Balloon Festival
[es2040]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 98 minutes
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Favorable winds support the launch of hundreds of hot air balloons of all shapes, sizes and colors into a clear blue sky.

Gracefully moving up and to the east, mid-way through the sequence, the winds shift and balloons begin moving in all four directions as well as up and down.

Afternoon Snowfall
[es2045]

Scene Details

Scene Length: 62 minutes
Location: Summit County, Colorado

High in the Rocky Mountains we are immersed in the clouds of a three-day snowstorm.

The snow falls in cycles that vary from light to heavy with occasional light wind that changes according to the eddy currents caused by the storm’s progress through the rough terrain.

All sound is absorbed by the snow-laden fir trees and deeply covered ground.
Light is as delicately modulated as the silence.

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