(Mt. Hood)
(Fuji Mountain)First saw this striking natural scenery in today's elective studio presentation, perhaps the momentary beauty of nature is never that we could fully duplicated.
Although one of my professor suggests that we should read more books rather than purely rely on wikipedia, however, for a lazy me, wiki will give me a quick intro. But I will read books when I find time. :)
Its scientific name is "lenticular cloud", which "forms at a high altitudes, normally aligned perpendicular to the wind direction."
Hoping that one day I could shoot one by myself, then that means travel to Japan first.
Also found this interesting diagram from wiki to tell us how it is formed above the mountains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_wave