Picture to Painting

I've been working hard and having fun in my art studio over the past few weeks. As I pause to draw breath I thought I'd share a little snippet of how I turned one particular photograph into a painting.

This is a photograph I took at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad.

Here is the painting I created from it.
As you can see I changed the top part of the photograph replacing the dull brown and green colours (and eliminating the people) with a brilliant blue that I captured in other photographs orientated in another direction. I also changed the colour of the flowers in front.