Split Personality

Thank you so much for your comments and observations on my previous post!  Very keen and appreciated.

Another bit of an abstract, although I'm giving it away in the title. ;-)  I've photographed and posted here before some  years back and wanted to see how this old weathered Western Juniper was holding up.  Holding up well, but what I photographed some 6 or 8 years ago is not quite the same.  But I was happy see it still worth photographing, especially since I had to scramble up this granite slab to find this again.

Just like my lodgepole image, this only works when the sun is behind the old tree, lighting up other side, the inside. I did have a reflector, but it had little effect due to angles and the small space to work with on the other side.

This is a 3 image stack for depth, although after running through the stacking, PS really only used 2 of the 3 layers.  My first pass in processing rendered the light in the crack as too red and unnatural; so I reprocessed trying to keep this more real.  The outside of the weathered juniper facing me was of course in the shade, slightly cooler, while the inside where the sun was striking had muted yellows and reds.

Anyway, your thoughts and critiques on this one are appreciated!

Lon