Shelter

One of the more interesting Anasazi ruins in S.E. Utah was built under this odd shaped rock 1000 years ago (+/-). When I arrived, partly cloudy skies were replaced with stormy and windy conditions. I wanted to get something from here so I slapped on a Hoya 9 stop ND filter and spent the afternoon making a series of 30 sec. exposures. This one was my favorite.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

Beautiful - like it.

No doubt you "made" this image interesting with the long exposure. Great idea! I think you could increase exposure a tad bit in the foreground, particularly to highlight the ruin itself.
With that interesting sky, this image begs of a black and white version?
Out of curiosity, what's the scale here?

Just an unbelievable Indian Ruin.

What an explosion of clouds! That ND filter was certainly the way to go John. The darker clouds give us a natural vignette around your subject without inhibiting the foreground. This image stands as is.

However, It appears the light may have been a little flat, rendering your foreground and ruin a little dark and your sky lacking some color punch... on my monitor of course.

I played around with your larger version a little bit, and discovered a fairly quick and painless way to enhance color and brightness if you think its warranted.

First, and important; your caprock line where it meets the sky is perfectly
transitioned to my eye, which is the hard part.

Using quick selection tool, try isolating the foreground up to about the middle of the caprock (the top third of the caprock looks perfectly exposed with nice highlights,) being careful to not run the marching ants from the selection tool to the edge where sky meets rock to avoid haloing in the next step. Do a slight refine edge. Then highlight/mids Curve that portion to taste. That should take care of the brightness of the foreground and ruin. Next begin a selection tool for the sky only, run the marching ants to about a half inch from the caprock, slight refine that edge. The hit your sky with a bit of curve to taste and most importantly Vibrance. This will explode your blues without adding contrast.

Lastly remove a few dust specs in the clouds.

Nice one John..as always.

Beautiful ruin and outstanding image, John. I immediately thought "black and white" as soon as I saw it. Have you considered a monochrome conversion?

The beautiful tone of the rock is what really caught my attention at first in the large image. Perfect exposure time with the clouds. I also like the tight framing of the rock. The one thing I thought about for awhile was the chroma of the ruin itself, the orange seems a bit stronger than the rest of surrounding rock. In the end I don't think I mind it but it was something that caught my eye. I read the comments about a B&W conversion, but for me the color is a great part of image.

Thanks so much for the kind words and feedback! I'll have a repost up later on today.

I like the way that the bright clouds sort of mimic the shape of the rock. This is an interesting find and you have captured it exceptionally well.

Really unique capture! It conveys a sense of mystery and makes me want to learn more about the story of the ruins!

John, this is an interesting shape of rock and the radiating stream of clouds compliment it. My tastes would lead to something similar to about a 2% brightening of shadows and 5% darkening of highlights in the shadow/highlights adjustments. The composition works well for me in terms of amount of sky vs rock.

The long shutter speed created a very cool effect that really adds to the interpretation of this ruin! I also would like to see a bit brighter rock/shelter. Definitely a winner!

Really nice shot here, John. Love the ruin and the long exposure.

This is fantastic John. What a creative eye and imagination you have to your work. Just beautiful! I would love toe also see a B&W version. This image makes me feel energy is emitting from the boulder.