Cloud-watching

Taken from my windows. Clouds here are very distracting…

Pictures in the clouds, cloud appreciation, cloudspotting, Magura, Romania, mountain skies, sunset clouds

A cloud fist about to flick the plane out of the sky… see the bent index finger poised to flick?

New moon

Cloud, lenticular cloud, TARDIS, wormhole, space and time, science fiction, hurricane, Romania, Magura

A wormhole in space… I expected the Tardis to come shooting out of it any moment.

Clouds, cloud-spotting, Magura, Romania, Piatra Craiului national park, Transylvania, sky, skies

This formation looks an artist’s exercise in cross-hatching. Out of the picture to the right was a huge ribcage of cloud.

Cloud pictures, Mick Jagger lips, Pestera, Magura, Transylvania, Piatra Craiului national park, Romania

Lips… Mick Jagger lips… little pink rogue cloud over the village of Pestera in Transylvania – the sky about to kiss the village?

Two faces

Coming storm

Cute clouds, cloud formation, cloud spotting, cloud watching, sky, blue sky, mountains, Romania, Transylvania, Magura village

There are some clouds which are just too cute for words. Little fluffball… Anyone see anything more definite?

Cloud spotting in Magura, Transylvania, the Piatra Craiului National Park, Romania, clouds, cloud formations, cumulus, cirrus

In an otherwise cloudless July sky over Magura, this has a little of everything; if you’re like me, looking for pictures in clouds, do you spot the bird’s skull on the far left? The eye sockets and the beak are clear as clear to me….

Dawn, sunrise, clear sky, colour, Magura, Transylvania, Romania, mountains, ecology, purity, nature

Dawn between the village and the Bucegi mountains… a cloudless sky – beautiful and restful, but less interesting without clouds

Clouds, cirrus, Carpathians, mountain sunset, red sky at night, shepherd's delight, Romania, Transylvania, Brasov county

On a breathless evening, there was not a hint of wind to disturb this amazing cloudburst formation, which lasted for well over an hour as the sun set behind Piatra Craiului

Fluff hiding lightning

Sunset streaks

Carpathian Mountains, sunrise, dawn, clouds, cloudspotting, Romania, Transylvania, Magura

Dawn… with clouds… Bucegi looms black against the sunrise strata as the village of Magura wakes up to another Carpathian mountain day.

Zeus, storm, lightning, thunder, rain, bad weather, clouds, stormcloud, cloud appreciation, Magura, Romania, Transylvania, Carpathian mountains

Zeus’s great fist boiled up against the backlit summer clouds within minutes, turning a peaceful summer sky into a brewing storm which hurled rain, hail, lightning bolts and sleet down on the village to the sound of thunder, before melting back into gentle blue.

Window to space

Cirrus, cloud, cloudspotting, Magura, Romania, Carpathians, Transylvania, summer sky, mountains

Like delicate fronds of weed drifting in a fast-flowing stream, this cloud formation in an azure sky was hypnotic.

Lazy cloudspotting, cloud appreciation, Gavin Praetor-Pinney, lenticular cloud, Magura, Piatra Craiului, mountains, Carpathians, Romania

Silent drama in the skies: I stood watching for well over an hour as the cloud morphed slowly in the setting sun. One of the most extraordinary clouds I’ve ever witnessed, right over my house. This is the lazy person’s ideal cloudspotting spot…