I adapted this from a photo I took of my son looking out into the sunset at Laguna beach around Christmastime last year. I was happy with the sky and much of the water coloring. But the water in the photo has a liquid-metal quality that I just couldn't get. I also missed on the water colors - the purples were there in the photo but much different than I ended up in my picture. I was happy with silhouette - especially since I didn't settle for black and used dark versions of every color from the photo (learning again that shadows are not blackened versions of colors but deeper and darker shades).