The year 1994 saw Jupiter spending the majority of the time in Libra, while Venus had one of its years with an October inferior conjunction (like 1986, 2002, and 2010). That means that now, both planets are in the early stages of their apparitions, with Jupiter slowly gaining in altitude each morning and Venus, after having rocketed high in the sky following inferior conjunction, is now beginning to slowly fall back. It will overtake Jupiter above the head of Scorpius in January 1995. Planets Annotated, Unannotated image.
The sky here still looks quite purplish, which is a lingering effect of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Exaggerated sunset and sunrise colors have been seen often since late 1991.
One of the frustrating things about attempting to photograph a twilight scene that includes a crescent Moon is that you can't render fainter stars properly without resulting in a terribly bloated Moon. Even with digital cameras, being able to edit out the over-exposed Moon is hard or at the very least tedious. What we are left with is a misshapen blob that doesn't resemble the Moon at all :(