The image captures a sunset over the Douro River, viewed from an elevated position within the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, looking westward towards the Atlantic Ocean

The image captures a sunset over the Douro River, viewed from an elevated position within the city of Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, looking westward towards the Atlantic Ocean. The upper two-thirds of the frame are dominated by a vivid sunset sky, with the sun appearing as a bright, horizontally elongated, yellow-white disc centered just above the distant horizon. The sky directly around the sun is intense orange and yellow, transitioning to red, then to muted orange and finally pale blue-grey at the top. Scattered dark, shadowed clouds and wispy orange-tinged clouds are present throughout the sky. The lower third depicts the dark, reflective waters of the Douro River, which curves from the mid-right foreground towards the mid-left distance. A large, dark, flat-decked vessel is moored at a pier extending from the right bank (Vila Nova de Gaia side) into the river, roughly in the lower-center. The immediate right bank features silhouetted buildings with visible rooflines and a steeply rising, tree-covered hillside. The left bank (Porto side) also shows a collection of silhouetted buildings along the waterfront, with a prominent elevated structure, likely a bridge approach or road, ascending the hillside. In the mid-distance, a large multi-arched bridge (Ponte da Arrábida) spans the river, its structure a dark silhouette against the bright horizon. Several small, dark buoys are visible on the river's surface. No human figures are discernible, and the scene is static.