I got your PM, so here is a bit more on the photo.
I like the overall feel of the image, the dark and forboding sky, the layers of rock, the forsaken land. It works pretty well actually. I just think the image is a bit flat. This can potentially be corrected in two ways.
First, the best way is to find the best time of day to leverage the light and how it interacts with the landscape. For me, I think low angle light to show the subtle differences in the layers could really work. On a landscape like this, I almost wonder if being at this location at different times of day to see how the light interacts with the scene would be most beneficial. The best landscape photogs go back to scenes over and over again to learn how the light interacts with the subject. It is a cool location, it might be worth it here.
Second, post processing can bring out a bit more bite to the details. one of my favorite tools for local contrast is to use unsharp mask at large radius to increase local contrast. Setting such as 25%, 50 pixel radius, and 0 threshold will add some contrast without impacting the sharpness of the image. It works really well for me when I am trying to pull out textures in lines. I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of performing this action/filter on your image (see below). I think it does bring out the lines of the rocks a bit better and also shows up the vignette that was already in the image.
I hope this is helpful.
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