I enjoy answering my own "what if" questions. In this case I was about to pack up after shooting a sunrise; the big show was over. However, the sun was now illuminating the clouds several hundred feet below me and turned them the same orange that the sky had been minutes before (those are not waves in the ocean; they're clouds in the valley below the mountain I'm on). I wondered "what if I get myself to a point where this old tree skeleton on the side of a mountain top could be isolated against what was left of sunrise?" and this is what I came up with. It was a contest as to whether me or the tripod would disappear down the slope first as I eventually had to go down the hillside to eliminate an overhanging branch from a nearby tree. Of course that necessitated changing to my 12-24 lens because now I was too close to the tree to get it all in the frame with the 18-70 I had been using - and felt certain that something was going down the hill during the process. All's well that ends well. I worked hard to get a small "sunburst" about 1/3 up the right side of the trunk (small sliver of sun and aperture stopped down to f/22). Looks a lot better not scaled down so small for web posting.