In many ways the strongest of the photos. I still have this sense of cramped composition. I'm pretty much noticing it in all 4 images. Processing is pretty realistic here, composition cries out for another 10-20% at the top to open her up and let her breathe. Anyhow, the light is less flat here, and this has paid benefits on the wall to the right.
But imagine the light coming from the left and perfectly parallel to the left wall: that wall will be "raked" by light, fairly dark, textured, the waterfall will glow, the texture of the right wall will also be expressed, the lower, foreground wall will be in shadow. If it's the right time of year for the light to be low in the sky when it rakes that wall, then the vegetation in the foreground/middleground will become luminous, or more so anyway.
I'm rambling. You had whatever you had, you wanted to shoot these shots, they ARE nice :-) I'd only gently urge that next time, you turn around as you go and look at the light all around you. If the light's right behind you, turn around and find something else where the light is working well. Yosemite LOVES backlighting, for instance.
I'll try to process a variation of one of these and post it.
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