I worked on this image for nearly fifteen minutes, waiting for passing freighters to position themselves in my frame, the small waves to break on the rocks, and for a lone gull to do something other than just stand on the big rock. Finally, after about fifty images, a freighter worked its way to the end of the hills in the background, a dense rain cloud framed the top of the image, a small wave breached the valley between the rocks, and the gull decided to stand on one leg and scratch its head. Note how I positioned the horizon here, placing it one quarter of the way from the top, rather than splitting the frame in half at the middle. This off center horizon placement gives primacy to what is happening in the bottom three quarters of the image.