Giant pink powderpuff

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

Window to space

Coming storm

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

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….

Two faces

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…

Sunset streaks

Breaking dawn

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

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

Fluff hiding lightning

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

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

Erupting volcano

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

There was no wind, so the cloud was allowed to grow and develop slowly, over the ridge of Piatra Craiului, over 2,000 metres high in the Carpathians.

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.

Lenticular clouds