Sometimes it just creeps up on you.  You wander out after a miserable, rainy day, and halfway down the street you realise there’s something wrong.  Weird.  Unusual.

The light.  The sun finally peeks through the clouds and the most amazing, spectacular and hard-to-believe light fills the sky.  It feels like you’re trapped in an alternate universe because surely these colours aren’t real in this world.

This happened to me after a miserable day indoors with the ‘flu in Nice.  My friends persuaded me to venture outdoors and at the last minute I grabbed my camera, but sadly, no tripod.  The next 30 minutes were possibly the most unusually lit of my life.

Rainbows, sunsets, purple and magenta clouds – I kept looking for a unicorn to come trotting around the corner!

I guess my lesson is to always be prepared.  After years of coma-inducing and barely-there sunsets, I finally had my deliverance but I was sadly unprepared.