A huge gold and pink cloud floats diagonally over the hotels and condos of Imperial Beach at dusk. Shooting from the town pier, I use a 24mm wideangle focal length to not only include the sky and cloud, but also embrace the diagonal flow of surf that moves through the shadows in the lower half of the frame. These diagonals converge on the horizontal shoreline, completing the composition. I made this image after sunset, and used my spot-metering mode to expose for the brightest spot in the picture – the highlights in the cloud. The rest of the image falls into dusky shadow, emphasizing the pink reflection of the cloud on the water.