Photographer Tony Rowell sent me a link to a time lapse video he made of the American southwest. It's all really very pretty, but honestly, the part that got me was the amazing lenticular cloud at the very beginning. You just have to see it to believe it!
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Spectacular, no? Lenticular, or lens-shaped, clouds form near mountains, where the rising air condenses to form the clouds, and the wind gives them their shape. I see them commonly here in Boulder
, but near sunset the colors are magnificent. Tony really snagged a great shot there, and I love how it looks like a jellyfish hovering in the air. Finally, right at the end (at the 4 minute mark) he caught a bright fireball over Mt. Whitney that's just stunning.
It appears over several frames of the time lapse, which isn't actually possible: meteors move so quickly they come ...
