Just as the fisherman in the preceding image, this Brown Pelican is spending its evening on Mission Beach for a catch of his own. On this evening, the setting sun was hidden under what is known as a “marine layer,” a massive cloudbank. However that bank does not quite reach the horizon, leaving a slit of orange open sky below it. The orange layer divides the gray sea from the gray sky, creating a series of three horizontal bands across my frame. I waited for a cruising pelican to horizontally fly into my picture, and when one was about a third of the way across my viewfinder, I made this image.