This month's favourite was taken about four years ago, whilst cycling along the River Colne near Wivenhoe. This was something I used to much more regularly than I do now, and I know I need to get back onto my bike again soon.  I had my Nikon D80 with 18-70 lens in my back pack, with the idea of getting a few riverside and landscape images along the way.  It really is a lovely quiet river, which gradually expands into an estuary as you cycle along it.

I stopped to look back at the sunset which was starting to take shape behind me as I cycled.  I don't normally take pictures of sunsets,  but I was so impressed with the colours and structure of the clouds which were complicated and fragmented, mixed with aircraft vapour trails hanging in the sky.

The strange looking steel structure is actually a rather old reminder of the industrial revolution. It is part of a cable car conveyor system, which carried gravel stone or sand from a quarry, about about 500 metres inland from the river bank, down to a wooden jetty, where it was loaded onto river barges for transporting to locations up or down river.  It is incredible that these rusty old structures are still standing as a testament to the 19th century. Even the timber jetty still stands, although somewhat dilapidated.

I just thought that the old tower and jetty complimeted the wonderful sky...   a touch of 'man versus nature'.