Painted Granary(& Total Repost)

A remote Anasazi ruin in SE Utah has a very unique paint job on the exterior. First I've ever seen of anything like it, actually. The remaining mano and metate, potsherds and corn cobs were a treat, too.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Canon 5DII w/Rokinon 14mm lens
1/30 sec. @ f8 ISO 100
3 images focus stacked for optimum DOF

Very cool find John! Interesting with the painting on the wall, I haven't seen that before either. Great use of the foreground elements, they certainly add an extra level to the image, it really tells a story. Great Work!

John, another amazing and photogenic Anasazi ruin. Thanks for doing the legwork for all of us to dream. Ive seen different perspectives of this ruin that I like too.. Perspectives that focus solely on the ruin and the rock striations above. However, the wide view including the corn cobs allows us to dig a little deeper into our imaginations, and for that, I'm connected. As for black and white; I'm down with it. Here's a tid bid photoshop (not Silver Efex) processing nugget from my recent Ruins trip. I'm discovering that shooting these scenes at deep dusk in a cooler wb, the images set themselves up well for a B&W conversion. The cyans, and blues convert really well into great contrasty scenes with minimal work. I went out the next morning to shoot the same scenes before the sunrise but realized it wasn't the same light. Interesting stuff, more to come.

I think the bottom 2/3rds of this scene lends itself to a tad more darker mids, your highlights are spot on.

I'm actually having trouble articulating my vision, but it's more of a Levels thing vs Curves.

Wow, John - this is spectacular. Beautiful ruin, beautiful photo, lovely black and white image.

Thanks for the kind words, folks.
And a special 'Thanks!' to Kane for such solid advice! Hope your trip down this way was fun and productive.

Now that is a jewel. Very nice capture.

Great find, John. When people talk about a great photo "telling a story" this can be exhibit A. Very cool image!

Really strong composition on this John. I loved the curved rock face and the position in the frame. I also like where you positioned the ruin, but also included the corn. Very interesting image. Really super work.

As always, stellar work John.

very interesting shot! I see you focus-stacked; the immediate fg looks OOF to me, but maybe its web compression, or maybe its my eyes from not enough sleep...

They always says an image should tell a story and this one is a case in point. Including the artifacts in the foreground really completes this scene quite well. Excellent work, John. I'm quite sure this site isn't listed in any tourist info

Thanks again.
I was less than pleased with the blah left wall below the ruin and the toning (via lowering opacity of SilverEfex layer).
So here's a version I like quite a bit more.

Hi John, I like this version a little better. I think the new cooler tone lends itself well to allowing more contrast. The petroglyphs on the ruin really shine in this version. Btw, the top right (different than the three below)petroglyph is an exact copy of one I located on Pictograph Ruin.