Just a huge amount of handwork, with blending all the layers and finding a way to make them match each others. Tried to do a clean cut with the bird (seagull) and give it a better coloring too.

I gave some colours for the bird(s) and spend a lot of time altering the colours for different source pictures, as the colour palette was very different in each.

Tools used: layer blending, masking tools, warping tool, perspective tool. Hue/saturation and colour balance tool+channel mixer. Clone tool and render/lightning effect.

A slight gaussian blur added finally with some colour tweaking, to remove excess colour from the lower part of the image (mostly red).

A lot of painting here (Hope that's OK). Found the perspective and lighting on the bridge quite difficult, so any comments welcome.

Credit:

Clouds brushes by leboef - http://leboef.deviantart.com

Designed an Aurora in Illustrator and used that as the back drop instead of the sky and then inserted a photo of the moon I took a while back.

Burned the Outer sides of the glacier to give the appearance of the moons glow across the glacier.

All sources are my own work.

Oh yes this is a Tourist Ship as well but they collect unique souvenirs, the bi-pedal hominid kind...and of course the occasional cow.