Got totally fooled by a fake lenticular cloud over Mount Rainier last month
I was up at Sunrise Point in the park, trying to get a good shot of the mountain with some cool clouds around it. I saw this perfect, smooth lens shape just sitting on the peak and got so excited, I mean, classic lenticular cloud, right? I took like twenty pictures with my old Canon T3i. But when I looked closer at the screen, the edges looked weird and fuzzy, not sharp. I realized after a few minutes it wasn't a cloud at all, it was just a big patch of snow blowing off the summit, lit up by the sun to look exactly like one. I felt pretty silly, but it was a good lesson to really watch the details and not just assume. Has anyone else had a cloud lookalike trick them like that?