This is a photo that I took when my family and I went up to Aptos for the long weekend. More specifically, this was taken the night we went for a Sunset walk on the beach. This particular photo felt like an apt choice for the prompt because not only were we asked to capture a picture of a sunset, but also to do so creatively. I chose to have the actual setting sun (or at least the area where it had disappeared beneath the horizon) to be out of frame, implying it’s location only through the vivid streaks of yellow and orange. Typically, when I see photos of sunsets, they are centered on the sun itself. In this photo, I wanted to focus more on the effect the sunset has on the colors of the sky, and how they sort of dissipate the further you get from the sun, creating this lovely gradient of vibrancy. Similarly, in order to balance out the strength of the colors in the sunset, I kept the sandy beach a relatively desaturated purplish-gray. This provides both the top and the bottom of the photo with the visual weight needed to counter the other side.