Sunlit dappled monoliths

Well that's a great job of framing . The tree growing between is nice. I think this could handle slightly more saturation.

Thank you for your suggestion, John. I find it helpful. 

Stephanie, this is a pretty unique subject, and I love the textures and colors in the rocks. nice bit of seeing here ot create this composition. It almost looks like you are looking through a doorway here, it's pretty neat. In terms of suggestions for improvement, I have three. The boulder in the lower right corner is a key element in your composition, and the right side of it is cropped away, I would prefer to have seen all of it included. In terms of processing, I think this could also take some more darkening in the shadow areas, it would add more definition and textures in the rocks. I also think darkening the edges here with a vignette would place more emphasis on all the neat stuff going on in the center of the image. The lower left and upper right corners in particular are very bright.

Stephanie, What a cool shot of a very interesting location. Ed's suggestion of adding some vignette (dark) I think is a great idea for this picture. He is also right on the money about including all of the big boulder if you could so that the one corner is not cut off and darkening the shadows a bit. It is a nice image and worth just a little more work. I like looking at this and it really reminds me of a place about 40 miles from my home that I have not shot for quite some time. Now I think I have to make a little trip there. 

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.

Ed, John, and Nick,  Thanks so much for your excellent suggestions. I went back to the original photo and added some vignette, increased the contrast, and increased the saturation. The biggest problem of the cropped boulder couldn't be corrected because sadly I didn't include the entire boulder in the frame. 

Stephanie, This looks much better to me now. Nothing you can do about the boulder now but with the darker vignette it looks much better. A very nice image of a great looking place. Nice job on the redo!..

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.

The larger rocks create a nice "window" to look out.  For suggestions, maybe add come contrast and mid-tone contrast, and reduce the yellow saturation just a little.
edit to add that your repost has addressed the contrast suggestions.

The repost looks great, Stephanie. The increase in saturation and contrast has added some pop to the scene. To bad about the boulder. If this is close by it is certainly worth a reshoot.

Ed

Hi Stephanie,
Nice capture, good framing, though it would have been better to include the whole boulder. Some great advice there and well followed and executed in your repost.