A September evening during which an ordinary sunset turned into something extraordinary without any warning. I had actually gone down to the beach to shoot a publicity shot for the 2010 calendar, myself holding a copy of the new publication in front of an orange sky. We took the publicity shots just before sunset, but then, just after sunset, this large cloud with a rippled undersurface began to catch the light from the by now invisible sun and glowed with a crimson light. It was a lovely spectacular sky in which the colours intensified as the sun sank even further below the horizon, I had started packing up the equipment but then kept turning back to see even better colours than before. This was nature putting on a spectacular show for the few watchers on the beach at this time of night. Nearly an hour after sunset I moved from my position near the Leisure Centre to near the car park at Hall Road. Now the slow moving cloud was glowing a deep, intense crimson with hints of fiery orange filling the gap between sea and cloud.
I was doing my best to record these spectacular changes of light with time exposures now of up to ten seconds, there was only the glow of reflected light from the clouds now to provide any light now almost an hour and a half after sunset. My wife, helping earlier with the publicity shot, had sat in the car at Hall Road listening to music whilst watching the last half hour slowly fade into darkness. She said it was an amazing experience, listening to gentle background music whilst viewing this incredible light show, one of the best I have ever scene from the beach. Dinner that night was much later than anticipated but we sat talking long into the night, enthused by what we had witnessed.
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