Color plays the central role in this image. In the moments after the sun has set, surrounding clouds will often turn pink. That is what is happening in this image. The blue of night has already come to these rugged mountains and the wetlands that surround them. Yet the day still lives in the sky above. I waited for a lone car to pass down the road, so I could add both scale and meaning to the scene. The day is over, and that car seems to be on the way home.