The Cloud Appreciation Society – which now boasts 8,000 members – has collected an extraordinary number of pictures of clouds from all around the world in a wide variety of different shapes.

Here, we present some of the most spectacular…

The Grim Reaper, lurking over Malaysia

Monkey skiing down a run, spotted over New Zealand

A dog barking, seen above Soldiers Point, Australia

A dragonfly, photographed above Upton, Lincolnshire

The number two, picked out in the sky over Stafford

The Cloudship Enterprise, hovering over Calgary, Canada

A pig with six legs, ‘walking’ over the Trent at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire

Fusilli pasta, spiralling over Sossuvlei National Park, Namibia