Wonderful warm and cool tones in both the water and sky James. Your getting up higher did certainly give you a clean FG and I also like the fact that you were able to keep the couple of rocks in front of the formation from merging into the BG peaks. My only suggestion is to clone out the white cloud as it is a eye magnet; at least to me. I am on the fence about cloning out whatever is sticking up along sticking up along the ridge of Elephant Rock. BTW, wonderful detail in the rock. Nicely done.
Wow! Beautiful sky color James. Nice sea, and rock silhouette too. I love the cactus showing against the skyline and the little arch in the rock. I agree with @Ed_Lowe that the bright white clouds should be darkened or cloned out to reduce their impact some. Cool shot.
Ed &ED, Thank you for comments ,always welcomed . I did remove the clouds and it is an improvement . The objects on the ridge line are cactus plants and I felt they provided some scale to the formation and they were highlighted nicely by the small group of clouds.
