I promised landscape after the last few days of abstract meanderings, so here we go.  Sunset pictures are often considered to be principally about the colours, but I think that’s only part of the story – the shape of the silhouetted landscape against the sky is for me an important element as well.

I took this image on a journey through Essex; as we were driving along the colours were intensifying, and it was clearly going to be a special sunset.  When we pulled over by the roadside, the yellows and oranges were certainly striking, but so too was the pattern of the trees against the skyline, and the gentle slope of the land.

Sunset