WATCH: Stunning Fog Time-Lapse Filmed in Marin

This week, Simon Christen posted his latest project, a time-lapse film of fog — accented with pink, orange and yellow sunrise hues — rolling over Marin Headlands hills.

The Vimeo film, titled “Adrift,” quickly earned traction no the Internet. By Saturday afternoon, it had garnered nearly 620,000 plays.

“‘Adrift’ is a love letter to the fog of the San Francisco Bay Area. I chased it for over two years to capture the magical interaction between the soft mist, the ridges of the California coast and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. This is where ‘Adrift’ was born,” Christen wrote on the video’s description.

Christen, who told the Huffington Post he was born in Switzerland and is currently living in Oakland, said the weather conditions had to be just right for the fog to glide over the hills and under the bridge. 

“I developed a system for trying to guess when to make the drive out to shoot, which involved checking the weather forecast, satellite images and webcams multiple times a day,” he wrote. “For about 2 years, if the weather looked promising, I would set my alarm to 5am, recheck the webcams, and then set off on the 45-minute drive to the Marin Headlands.”

The photographer, age 32, is also an animator at Pixar Studios, according to the Huffington Post.

In 2010, Christen released his time-lapse video “The Unseen Sea,” a collection of time lapses from around the Bay Area he filmed over the course of a year.