During our visit to Mission Beach, I was fortunate to be able to photograph the sun setting over the Pacific Ocean for 27 consecutive nights. On most summer evenings in San Diego, the skies are usually clear. But at least once or twice a week some clouds appear, filling the skies with the golden reflections of a setting sun. I made this image on just such an evening. The setting sun is tucked away behind the fiery orange clouds. I am able to photograph the effects of the setting sun, rather than the setting sun itself. The image becomes an exercise in color, shape, and texture. It only needs a focal point to make it work, and by pure chance, a large freighter appears on the horizon, slowly moving towards the right hand edge of the frame. Juxtaposed against the blue sea and golden sky, the silhouetted freighter helps me once again use scale incongruity to compare this impressive example of man-made technology to the even more massive and staggeringly beautiful presence of nature.