Hongkiat.com: 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 07:54 AM PDT

Clouds are the noble contributor for awesome photos. Have a look at these following photos: #1, #2, #3, and #4. They are some of the really great examples of natural portraits taken by professional photographers and as you can see, in each of every photo, the clouds defines or deliver the dramatic effect. Moving on, clouds comes in various forms and some can only be seen in certain weather and places. Taking a decent photo of beautiful cloud is no easy task.

Cloud Invasion

Here, with great attempts we collected various stunning photographs of clouds. We’ve split the entire collection into several categories: the beautiful, the rare and some extremely rare clouds you don’t often see. Enjoy and lets see if you get clouded or lighten.

Beautiful Clouds

Below are the first part of the showcase where we sorted beautiful clouds. When we said clouds are beautiful, it usually means when we look at it, we feel tranquility and sublime. These clouds are cumulus clouds that are usually formed in lower altitude.

Purple smoke (by fallen-angel-24)

Loch Tree Clouds Reflections (by idg)

The other side of the clouds (by kees straver)

Sky (by Nadia Noguera)
skyline

Bohol Beach Club (by Lost in The RP)

Black Clouds And Dreams (by Rein)

Above the clouds (by kyokosphotos)

Just morning (by Antakistas)
Antakistas 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

Winter dream on christmas eve (by Gregor Halbwedl)

Before The Storm (by Philipp Klinger )

Breadth (by Nicholas_T)
Breadth 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

Giant cloud (by rexguo)

Storm In Whistler, Bc, Canada (by hailey-lane)

Long Jetty Cloud Reflection (via maureen_g)

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ftogrf 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

I See Light (via Ben Heine)

Voices of Solitude (via Ben Heine)

Show at 35,000 ft-Summer (via ming)
Show at 35,000 ft Summer 2007 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

Rare Clouds

By rare we meant they are probably not ordinary clouds you get to witness everyday. Also what may makes these clouds be complimented as rare is because they formed in unique locations which lures the beauty of these clouds.

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Cloud Invasion

Nature’s Art (via Schristia)
Nature's Art

Mammatus Cloud (via extremeinstability.com)

Mammatus Clouds Over Courtland (via rhythmandcode)

Fury (via rawheadrex)
fury 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

A little bit of everything on a hot summer day (via Connie)

Omarama Fallstreak (via wikipedia)

Fallstreak hole (via Flying Jenny)

Fallstreak Cloud 2 (via arbyreed)

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breakthough

Every cloud has a silver lining (via s0ulsurfing)

Von Kármán Vortex Street (via wired.com)
vortex 40 Stunning Photos of Beautiful Clouds

(Extremely) Rare

These extremely rare clouds can be seen when the weather are messed up which caused abnormality to the clouds. The formations are very unique and is usually be regarded as a disastrous event. Take “eye wall” and storm cloud as example.

Heart From Cloud (via FlickCollection)