After the struggle to get to this location, I wasn't going to let a non-cooperative sky get in the way of making a sunset image (but I'm getting a bit old to scramble down 30 foot embankments and kneel in the water for 30 minutes waiting for a show that never quite happened. I liked the potential for this composition, but the colors never panned out.
I had to do this with my 12-24 ultra wide lens (Bets, I broke another lens - that makes two over two+ years and the folks here tell me that's par for the course. Nuts; it was my favorite/only landscape lens and has made the past three days very interesting with a gap between 24mm and 105mm - just about the entire "normal range", and then some, with no lens in my bag to fill it. Good practice & learning experience being forced to used the ultra wide though. I guess only two after going out every day for two years & averaging nearly 75 shots a day isn't too bad - but zero would be better.) To illustrate the optical tricks played by this lens - the two nearest rocks are only 12" away and the rock just beyond them is less than 3' away; the barely visible rock that appears to be far away down the beach is only about 25' away. You really have to get close to things - and when you think you're close enough you have to get closer.