The photo was taken on the Aqua Caliente Indian Reservation in Palm Springs. It's a California fan palm oasis. The palms need a permanent water supply such as seeps, springs and streams.
Some oasis are along fault lines where water is pushed to the surface. I've been to several oases in Arizona and California. There are also a few in southern Nevada.
After selecting the sky I filled it with the color of the sky from a different image I took the same day. I used a mask and the gradient tool to get the lighter color by the mountain. I got some banding which I corrected by adding a small amount of Gaussian blur and then some noise.
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