This image had its beginning in the background star field.  It was a photograph I had taken of the paint deck I worked on in New Jersey.  I was playing around with Photoshop image filters, fiddling with hues and saturations, and then adding distant suns.   After that, it was "Hmm, what else?  Oh!  How 'bout --" and so the leaves, the figure, the beams of light through fog.

Originally the sky was in blues and purples, but I was "inspired" by a song on the soundtrack for the movie The Informers:

"In a Scarlet Sky."  I like that song, and decided that this sky could be in reds and purples, too.