The jaw dropping image titled 'A Perfect Cloud ' takes the number one prize winning a whopping £5000 cash.
photography competition. Looking like a scene from Mordor in Lord of the Rings, the picture of lenticular clouds surrounding the crater of the Villarrica volcano in Chile beat more than 3,000 entries to win the prestigious award.
Lenticular clouds form when air flowing over the ground encounters an obstacle like a volcano. This causes the air to rise and cool, which can allow moisture to condense and form clouds.of the Year drew in both amateur and professional photographers from 94 countries. Organisers hope the shots both delight and inform on weather phenomena and climate change.
Winner of the Young Weather Photographer of the Year, is 17-year-old Jamie McBean with an awe-inspiring scene of bulbous mammatus clouds adorning the sky at sunset. These clouds gracefully hang low over a row of beach huts following a dramatic thunderstorm at Herne Bay in Kent. Jamie wins a cash prize of £750, plus a double page spread in the Week Junior Science+Nature Magazine and a year's subscription.
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