Many of the photographers in our group climbed the many steps of this 19th century lighthouse to shoot the setting sun over the Gulf of Mexico. I stayed on the ramparts of the adjacent Morro Castle Fortress to make the lighthouse and the wall of the fortress part of my own image. I had made many images involving the setting sun, but later discarded them in favor of this photograph, which expresses the effect of that setting sun, rather than showing the actual sunset itself. As dusk falls, the sun has already slipped well below the horizon. The huge thunderheads roaming the neighborhood were edged in pink and purple. I use one of those thunderheads as my subject here, while the lighthouse and the wall of the fort, both now abstracted silhouettes, offer context. Some of my fellow photographers still linger on the iron balcony of the lighthouse.