I took the reference photo when Nathaniel and I went on our first Christmas hike together as a married couple at one of our favorite places to go hiking! Unfortunately, it burnt down since. I haven't seen it since the bobcat fire since it's a gated area now. In a way I wanted to pay my respects from the great pleasures it brought to so many people. I also wanted to experiment, where I painted the background orange and let some of it show through in the end result to compliment the blue. When the sun is hitting the back likes like it’s on fire. This was painted on an 24 x 30 canvas with Golden fluid acrylics.