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To start off, let me just point out the most obvious of things: it'd be hard for me to rate you high in sunsets. Afterall, photos of sunsets are unbelieveably usual, and as individual as each sunset may be, photos of sunsets are unfortunately not as individual as one would wish.
However, that is the only negative thing I can really say about this. The colours are nothing short of sublime, giving off so many hues and tones and at many different levels of intensity. My word, it's just a frenzy of lush, bursting golds and ambers, subtly daunting blues and an array of greys. The way that the sun's rays are scattered due to the clouds, rather than giving off a single beam of light adds so much to the image, giving it a pleasant, harmonic appeal. However, it almost gives a sad aura, also, because it is almost as though the day is dying and the sun is fighting to give those last few moments of light.
The scattering of the cloud across the skyline and the many variations of highlight/lowlight on them allows for many focuses for the eye, and so the photo is not as easily absorbed and then ignored as many other sunset photos would be. The sky is also more noticeable due to the angle you have shot it at (with minimal landscape and plenty of skyline), and the landscape itself being so dark. However, the glimmering of light cast throughout the land convinces the eye that, although it may be nigh-on pitch black, it's still so solid and visible. That totally helps make the photo, considering that without those reflections, the land would look too dark for any interest to be cast upon it, and would make the photo feel incomplete.
Finally, I've left the best until last. The sun. I don't know about anyone else, but to me, the intense brightness and the sheer scattered dark cloud makes it appear as though the sun itself is a massive fireball. Don't get me wrong, I know that the sun IS a massive fireball, but the way that the cloud has positioned itself in front of the sun gives it a molten lava effect.
To sum it all up, if someone were to say to me 'my photo depicts a marvelous sky', I would strike them with a glove for being so pompous about their photography skills. But you, good sir, have given this photo a worthy and truthful name, indeed.
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