Zygomatic Arch, sunset

Sometimes one just can't resist trying things. All comments are very much

appreciated--did it work?

Hello Les..Very interesting and great POV. Well seen, Well taken. Regards, Lawrence

First and foremost, I am grateful for the time you took to view and comment on 2 of my abstracts.  Your feedback is valuable to me.

Somehow, if I were a doppelgänger for an explorer of other planets (kinda like Matt Damon's role in "The Martian") viewing this image, I would think that it displays the sort of landscape I might find on Mars, or maybe elsewhere.  Fantasies aside, without being able to see the surrounding landscape, this structure does seem to be otherworldly.  This is reinforced by the predominance of dark tonality in the rock, and the hint of highlights on the other side - or perhaps the bottom - of the arch.

One small nit, perhaps resulting from my personal taste . . . I think there's a tad too much empty space above the formation.  I wonder how the image would look if you cropped perhaps 1/3rd of that space from the top.

Thanks for the feedback, Lawrence and Michael! And that's a really good call on the crop, Michael--I'll do it. It was also a really good call on the other-worldliness--this is actually the cheekbone (zygomatic arch) of what may be a muskrat skull (or at least it's a muskrat-sized rodent), photographed on my back deck as the sun was setting. The warm tones in the shadows are reflected sunlight off my cream-colored house, and the highlights are directly from the setting sun (the actual bone was white). I had to mess with the sky gradient a bit to make it look in scale with the "arch"--in reality, it was too small of a patch of sky to show a gradient. This whole adventure was triggered by your comment that "Hericium erinaceus" looked like a landscape--it got me thinking about how much I treat macros and still lifes like landscapes, and I thought it'd be fun to run with the idea. It was! Thanks for the inspiration!