Hi Guy, as an old forester, I very much enjoy the detail and complexity of the forest scene that you convey - Old and new trees, dead and alive trees, tender foliage on hard granite, delicate leaves in light and hard shadowy rock.
You use the word “intersection” to describe those contrasts, I think.
Gotta say, though, to me the way that the large second-growth Douglas-fir intersects the photo seems to break up the flow, and make it hard to understand the cohesive story among all the elements.
I wondered if the right side would make a cohesive story – tree in its prime looking at its inevitable future rotting on the rocks.
Similarly, I see a cohesive photograph in the left side, this one being more about angles and triangles.
In both, I burned sky highlights and applied a freehand vignette.
