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Phil, seems as though you have conquered something that has been my biggest challenge. Good exposure! Especially considering you're shooting directly at the sun. Good composition, although I think maybe you should eliminate or show more of the rock peeping in on the left hand side. There also a speck of sensor dust in the upper right side that of course can easily be cloned out. I hope your don't mind me making a suggestion, but Jayme Hall suggested this to me and it's been really beneficial. Create a duplicate layer and on the second layer, give it a linear burn and then decrease the opacity of the second layer down to around 5%. I find it really adds a punch to my photos.

Top tip Will! Such a simple technique made a huge difference to this shot. I have also due to lack of time VERY roughly cloned out the rock on the left and have to agree it is much better. As for the exposure it was a breakthrough evening for me, I actually managed to take a shot that worked with nd grads!! This was done with a 0.9 and 0.6 hitech soft grads stacked together.