Late evening light
- Post author By Marc De Ridder
- Post date May 26, 2026
- Categories In Landscape, Morland House, North Ayrshire, Skelmorlie
- Tags blue hour, firth of clyde, morland house, north ayrshire, scotland, skelmorlie, sunset
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We were treated with a grandiose spectacle of the Northern Lights looking North over the Firth of Clyde. Around 9pm, a vibrant red aurora was clearly visible with the naked eye for around 20 minutes before fading away. An hour later, the aurora re-emerged, painting the entire Northern sky a vibrant green.
I am chuffed that my photo was spotted on Facebook by the Picture Editor of the Daily Mail and was published.
Last night was a first for me, seeing the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, for the first time with the naked eye in Scotland.
The Northern Lights were simply spectacular with their mixture of green, amber and red lights dancing through the sky between the South West and North West. Unfortunately there was a little bit too much cloud directly to the North.
I’m well pleased with these photos.
The sun setting over the Firth of Clyde simply never disappoints and are never the same. There is nothing better than relaxing after a hard days work than sitting at the window with a glass of wine and watch the sun go down.
Tonight we enjoyed an early autumn sunset over Toward Point while CalMac’s MV Bute (Eilean Bhóid) is sailing into the sunset en route to Rothesay on Bute.
While enjoying a fiery sunset tonight, the HNMLS Van Amstel was sailing down the Firth of Clyde. Unfortunately, the Dutch frigate F831 got it’s timing all wrong as it passed Toward Point lighthouse too late for the perfect shot of the frigate in the fiery sunset.
The Dutch frigate sailed up the Firth of Clyde yesterday (see HNLMS Van Amstel passing an Astute class submarine)
While the HNLMS Van Amstel was sailing up the Firth of Clyde on a hazy Monday afternoon, an Astute class submarine was sailing out. The Dutch frigate F831 passed the submarine surprisingly closely at Inellan.
It is very unusual to see a nuclear submarine sailing on the Firth of Clyde without heavy protecting from about 7 police patrol boats.
With the trap camera out for a couple of nights, we found out who were eating our apples.
We had expected the deer and perhaps the fox, but who would have thought we had a badger.
The badger
The fox
The buck
At the end of a day of wall to wall sunshine, the sun set with a band of lovely pink hues on the horizon beneath a dark blue sky.
With an amber aurora alert in place, I went out late evening to capture the northern lights over the Firth of Clyde. Not the most impressive, but I managed to capture a faint aurora.
Our ‘ragamuffin’ Bob has taken to lying on the grass outside. Tonight he cleverly found a strategic spot outside behind the plat pots where he could watch us cooking in the kitchen through the open back door while enjoying the late evening sun.
While we were enjoying another cracking sunset with bright ambers on Friday night, I spotted two crows landing on one of our Scots pine trees.
When the sun dipped behind the horizon, the sunset turned into a blend of nice pastel colours.