WWYD123 photoshop project: private island!

Following the directions posted by Sandbox365, I made my very own island!
Directions here: http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/24528/365-photoshopan-intro-to-using-layers
and WWYD123 project directions here: http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/24498/what-would-you-do-with-this-image-wwyd123-starting

[Savanna Yasmeen Malik.]

Wow, this is stunning!

[Kathryn]

@savannasphotography Thanks. It really was fun, if frustrating at times. I'm relatively new to photoshop and can never make the tools do what I think they should. Learning new tricks is the best part.

[Lyn Todd]

well done Kathryn! I like your island 'positioning' and also the warmth in your highlights.. I wonder how the cars get on the tiny island! ;-D
I think it took over a year for me to feel like I was driving photoshop,and could make it do what *I* wanted, rather than it taking me wherever it wanted to go! Every single project taught me something & i tdid became a lot easier & quicker over time.

[Kathryn]

@ltodd Thanks for the encouragement. It's good to know that maybe, someday, it will get a little easier.

[Richard Sayer]

I think this is a great effort Kathryn and I'm fascinated that, so far, even with precise directions, we've all come up with quite different images.

[Frank Hymus]

Superb! You even got the light rays right. Fav, even though compositing is not really my thing.

[Mike Gifford]

You're in the finals for the WWYD123 Challenge! Congrats!

[Kathryn]

@mikegifford Thanks so much! I really learned a lot from the challenge.