Taken at Lake Hikurangi. One of the children told me that was the name of the rock. Gradient map, grey scale lines. Levels, curves, selective colour, cropped, resized and USM
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Wow, those clouds are all the way blown out. You have an elements in the foreground (rock) and in the background (clouds) but no middle-ground giving your image an overly compressed feeling.
The over-exposure of the clouds is my major problem with this: all that remains here is the shapes, with no sense of the different tones that should be there. Obviously Idon't know what type of camera you're using, but I would have metered fro the clouds to find my exposure setting here (then you would know the brightest part of the image), or if necessary the very edges of the rock, so that you still get that brightness in the metered area, and hoped that the range of the camera would cope with the comparative darkness of the rocks, and could be brought back in editing. Compoaitionally, I think this is too complex to be Adams-like: most of his images are of very strong shapes, without a lot of confusion of different shapes that you have here. The surface weathering on those rocks is beautifully caught, however, giving them some sense of real 'life', which i like.
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