We encountered only one rainy day during our three weeks in Asia. Usually there was never even a cloud in the sky, which ruled out using the sky itself to tell a story. However on this particular evening, nature had a treat in store for photographers. I nearly missed the entire show. For several hours, I had been working at the desk in our stateroom, editing my photographs that I had made earlier. The curtains had been tightly drawn to darken the room. I had no idea what was going on outside . As luck would have it, I stopped editing to take a break. I happened to brush against the curtain as I got up, and a pinkish gold burst of light flowed into the the room. I saw that the sky was filled with drifting clouds over a golden Bay of Bengal, grabbed my small camera with the wideangle zoom lens, and stepped out onto our veranda to make this picture. Ir proved to be one of my most successful landscapes of the entire trip.