Martian Sunrise

A winter sunrise above the Washington rock climbing formation known as

Martian Slab.

C&C welcome.

A beautiful scene that has been captured very well. It's tonal range is too compressed and in my humble opinion could use some 'punch' in port processing to make it more aesthetically pleasing to me. I have made a changes and it is probably not what you saw but it is more appealing to me.

Attachment. I am sorry but  I am having trouble uploading at Photo.net.

Trying again

One more time: 

PS I think a density should somewhere between mine and yours and may be the way to go? Snow in the shade goes blue and when the red component of the sun hits the shaded snow it becomes mauve/pink which does not match the orange sun - not that it has to do so. Just some thoughts. 

OK. I see now what you're driving at. Your version is too flat for me, but I will try lightening some mid tones and see what comes of it.

I brightened some of the darker midtones with Tony Kuyper's luminosity masks.

What do think?

I prefer the autor's version.