Apr 25 2026 | By: Zuckerman Photography
One of the things remarkable about Patagonia is the incredible cloud formations. Every time I go there, I see these striking lenticular clouds that really look like flying saucers. The mountains here are the Torres del Paine range that are beautiful with a boring sky, but with the drama of lenticular clouds, the scene is magical. I used what I call the 'classic landscape technique' I learned in the '70s from David Muench -- make the foreground disproportionately large compared to the background with a wide angle lens placed 3 to 5 feet from the immediate foreground, and everything has to be in focus. I used a 24mm focal length here, and the settings were 1/100, f/22, and 1000 ISO.
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Jul 18, 2026, 9:52:27 AM
Adam - What a remarkable image. The blending of foreground and background in a manner that feels undulating is perhaps the closest I’ve seen in representing what it feels like to have actually been there. I visited the region at the end of 2016- one of the images that had stuck with me most were the formation of those unending lenticular clouds cresting the mountain tops. Thinking about them is what lead me here today.