I think the image is great despite other comments.

The sun not being red enough could simply be camera exposure 
differences.  I don't see any problem with the way it is now, but an 
orange disc (with halo) would also do the trick.

As for the islands... did Allen mentioned somewhere that they were large 
islands?  I immediately recognized them as rocks, given the sense of 
scale the waves portrayed.  I think they look great and the stage is now 
set for something interesting to happen.

One thing that did catch my eye was the media sun's reflection on the 
water.  Are you using a long cylinder orientated to point at the camera? 
  At far distances, the cylinder (if thats whats going on here) casts a 
nice reflection in the water, but close up the sun actually appears to 
cast a shadow on the water.  Using media in unrealistic ways can have 
unwanted side effects.  To remedy this, you might want to throw no 
reflection and no shadow tags on the cylinder and produce the glare on 
the water another way.  In this scene you could get away with cutting 
the cylinder short so the end of the reflection is hidden by the rocks. 
  However, if the full path of the reflection is going to be visible you 
will notice a sharp line where it cuts off.  The cylinder also converges 
to a point on the horizon making it seem like the sun is a point.  You 
might want to use a spherical pigment on the sky sphere to produce the 
sun's reflection.

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