As the prickley one says you need a silhouette to make a good sunrise or sunset, take my 'liquid gold' picture (
http://www.travelthrutime.com/Photo/Liquid-Gold-P1056.php) without the figures its just another sunset, the figures bring more to the picture.
I had another in the same batch where there was a seagull just alighting wings outstretched right where the water and land merged, which was quite good, but didnt have the impact of this one. you have underexposed enough to get the stunning colours in the clouds (essential from my point of view, sunrises and sunsets, always two stops below what the camera thinks is right, brings out the tonal qualities in the golden colours. there was one location I could only get a shot twice a year, an oast house with two tops close together and the moon would rise between the two tops, you could capture the moon with the steering vane of the oast chimney (a kent horse prancing) right over the moon, always a stunning shot, just a shame when it was cloudy on the day.
This is the location with the moon in the approximate spot, now imagine a tight zoom on the two oasts with the moon behind one of the vanes and the silhouette of a prancing horse over the moon.
Grendel
