I swear I wasn't going to enter another lighthouse shot (yet).
I had a lovely shot of some trees reflected in a pond but then I saw the "Trees" challenge and backed off fearing a tree overload.
PP as follows:
This is a single jpeg shot.
Lighten the rocks using Highlights/shadows adjustment.
Duplicate layer and blend in multiply mode 25% opacity. (Mask the rocks so they aren't darkened again.)
Apply Topaz denoise. (It's not a noisy image but this is to make it as smooth as possible so that it doesn't have that tone-mapped look.)
Apply Topaz adjust "Portrait Drama" filter.
Some dodging and burning
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