My Own Stairway to Heaven

My Own Stairway to Heaven:

To create my own stairway to heaven, I used four of my own photos, from greece 2011

And I also Used a free stock photo:

that I upscaled and erased all but the stairs: 

First, I selected the sunset as the background,

then I overlaid the photo of the water with the  dark mode:

Next step was bringing in the red plant from the photo

  

and overlaying with pin light mode: 

Then I opened the picture of the stone wall and I cut out the ocean :

And placed on top of all layers: 

Last step was to place the stairway into the composition, under the stone wall layer: