The mothership

As I've written in the past, clouds in Patagonia can be, and often are, amazing. Almost every day, we've seen lenticular clouds that indicate high winds in the upper atmosphere. But I had never seen anything like this one. This lenticular cloud was stacked several layers high, and my first impression was an alien mothership and I finally had proof we're not alone! I took about 50 pictures of it as it slowly changed due to the force of the wind. The dead tree in the foreground was a casualty from a massive and very destructive fire in this area that occurred in 2011. It took almost 2 months to extinguish it, and because plants grow so slowly here in the harsh climate, it can take as much as 300 years for the fire scars to disappear. My settings were 1/100, f/22, 800 ISO, and I used a 24mm focal length for the shot. To maximum depth of field, I focused 8 feet into the frame.