If you are curious to see a tall version of this, the commercial version was setup as a vertical format.
Commercial version

The memory of a beautiful scene tends to exaggerate the key points, trees are taller, valleys are deeper, vistas are wider, and the moon is bigger. I used a telescopic photo of the moon to get more detail.

Was it the water, or the lack of everything else? This image came from playing with palm tree models.

Heat waves recreated by placing a wavy glass texture in front of the camera point.

There is also a version of this image in the Sci-fi/fantasy category featuring a Gargoyle.

There is also a version of this image without the Gargoyle called Hot Stuff.

The valley and balcony were rendered in two separate 3d programs, and assembled in Photoshop

The results of my first experiments with a new 3d terrain program I just discovered. The moon was added in Photoshop.

Tiny fairies, no wonder they are so hard to find in the real world. I tried using a photo of an actual field in the background, although it's such a small area it's almost a texture map.