Mt. Orange WC 580

I like where you're going here Jim.. Good title, it does look like Mountain Orange alright..
Even a little melting snow has been left behind
A bit soft as you say, but @ 1/4 it's tough.
Have a great Sunday

I love the lines in this. So I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to explore a few things and I would encourage you to experiment, but that is up to you.

First, I wanted to see what this would look like in B&W, so I desaturated it. Then I did a levels adjustment bringing in both left and right, shadow and hightlight sliders to the edges of the B&W histogram. Looked interesting to me.

But, and this may be of more interest to you with respect to your original intent, I re-saturated it and then looked solely at a levels adjustment. There the histogram is a lot more complex - bimodal - and I relied solely on the right hump of it which was what I was using in the desaturated version. Bringing the left side into the middle; the left side of the right hump; I think makes the image a lot more dramatic without losing your original intent.

Bottom line; I love this as-is, a very unusual way of experiencing an orange, and I think it has even more potential. Thanks for posting it.

Creative interpretation of this orange slice, Jim. Mt. Orange is a great title. . .it does look like an orange mountain with some snow coating areas near the top. Eliminating the OOF orange slice on the right might add to the fantasy of this being a mountain. It does look a bit soft. . .perhaps a smaller aperture may have helped.