Skyfire at Pfieffer Beach

This is one of those lucky moment pictures. It had been overcast the entire day so it was looking like no sunset would happen. After driving down a somewhat questionable narrow course in a rental van, we paid the $10 to enter and go just for the experience. There was an opening in the cloud layer above and I looked at my girlfriend and said "this could be epic or we could not see the sun at all."

Well, it was epic. I've watched quite a lot of sunsets/sunrises and it's rare for the sky to give off such vibrant gradient tones. So vibrant in fact that I had to remove a little saturation in this edit!