Oh yeah, rather important to mention, I did a good deal of post-processing with Gimp 2.
I upped the contrast.
I did a local radial blur on the face of the rock facing the sun to get some bloom. I believe I used a burn layer to do that, but I can't remember, it might have been an addition layer.(I should probably be writing things down like that from now on...)
I also performed a kind of soft-brightening effect on the ground close to the camera, I thought they turned out really bland, so I coloured them up a bit with that.
I did one final, very slight blur across the entire image to soften it up to my tastes.
A lot of post-processing if you ask me, but I dunno.