This is a multi-shot panoramic photograph of a most incredible sunset, seen from Bradgate Park near Loughborough in Leicestershire. The clouds were drawing in, thick and dark, threatening rain. The sun, peaking through, a flare, illuminated the clouds around it as if they were on fire. One brief flame and then it was gone.
Whilst walking one of the Lavadas (drainage/irrigation channels) on Madeira to Camacha, the clouds descended, enveloping us and adding a real mood. The villages in the mountains are a real mixture of properties, with nice, expensive estates intermingling with decaying structures and plantations.
