Reverse Bang - Nothing Left But Ashes | Round 1

A while back I sign up for SPN_ReverseBang, a Live Journal community whose purpose was to give artists chances to make art and then have writers use those images to spawn fiction with no less then 5000 words - a reverse bang.

This was one of my contributions and was claimed by the awesome writer endrophineHaze who wrote the following ear-jerking story [ Nothing Left But Ashes of Doubt ]

Now to the Tech info:
Original Size: 2520x3732px, 300 DPI
Time Elapsed: more hours then I care to think about.
Program: Photoshop 7. Wacom pen tablet.
Brushes: Default Photoshop 7, hard round/soft round brush. Some custom made brushes as well.
Artwork registered with myfreecopywrite.