In Camera ... Sunset at Crosby Beach

Sunday 10th October. We have been enjoying several days of unbroken sunshine today is a lovely sunny autumn day, mild, up to 20C in the afternoon. Not a cloud in the sky all day, just a faint haze on the horizon. Down to the beach at 18.15, the sun a large orange disc low on the western horizon beyond the wind farm. The air was still, the cries of birds echo across the flat sands, the tide was out, a strip of wet mud reflected the blue light of the sky. As I thought might happen the sun took on a deep red shade as it sank into the haze on the horizon, becoming pink almost just as it sank below the surface of the sea, distorted into an oval shape by the earth’s atmosphere. There was very little colour in the sky afterwards, a pale pink wash against a the grey haze, the clear sky an eggshell blue above. The beach seems to become silent at sunset, the air stills, even the bird calls cease. I strolled back to the car, the air suddenly becoming chill as dusk fell.