Thanks for a reply that actually fits. Most of the HHs above are just grumpy, or would prefer something simple for a contest, like "a picture of an apple" or "a picture of a building."

The contest seems to me to allow for a very wide range of subjects, but must show some change or growth or decay. Those attributes are ones that can make a picture very interesting. Several possibilities come to mind: a graveyard, a burned-out building, a junkyard, a growing garden, a wilted garden, a wilted flower, a birth, a death, a confirmation, a wedding. Particularly interesting in the contest language is asking for showing some philosophical change, and I'd have to think about how to show that.

I suppose I'll get some blow-back from this.

The blending work along the horizon is crude and amateurish (AI). Take a close look at the tree/shrub just right of center on the horizon.

Luminar 4 is a parametric editor but exhibits some very surprising behavior more typical of a raster editor. Any cloning/healing work done in Luminar 4 creates what they call a stamped layer which monkey wrenches your processing as it won't update any changes made to adjustments done before the stamped layer. Luminar 4 also supports masked adjustment layers but it rasterizes all masks as they are created. As a result if you create a gradient mask you better get it right first time because you can't re-adjust it later which is shockingly ridiculous -- not ready for prime time.

Joe