As a BBC Weather Watcher I'm out most days, if only for a walk with my little camera, looking at the sky.
This afternoon looked promising, and as sunset is before 3:30pm now, it's easy to get a nice sunset picture in plenty of time to upload it to the BBC and see if they use it on the early evening weather forecasts.
I walked over to the West Beach which is usually the best place for sunsets (winter and summer alike), but too much cloud in the west left the sky devoid of too much colour.
As I set off back along the beach, the colour suddenly started to build in the eastern sky.
I walked up to a favourite spot overlooking the river estuary and the East Beach and, 20 minutes after sunset, this is the shot I got - shooting due east !
Skywatchers Sunset by
Alan Butterfield, on Flickr