[One4UAll]

Thanks, all, for your responses and advice. Sorry taking so long getting back to you, but, well, you know.... I like Frank Lopes' B/W rendition as well as bd's, altho there's too much magenta in bd's rendition for my taste.

After looking at all your renditions, which brought out detail in the mesa, I've decided I want the mesa to be shrouded as it is in a sense of mystery, with only a hint of detail. You all have helped me decide what I want.

I played around with the image my usual way, just to see if I could achieve the effect I wanted. I think I used Auto Levels to get the image into some sort of recognizable and workable form. Then, I selected the sky, using the Wand tool, adding & subtracting to the selection with Lasso. I made a layer of that selection. Working on that layer, I did a Curves adj. to increase cloud contrast, then did some desaturation of the sky.

I selected (with the Wand, of course) from the base of the mesa to the bottom of the image to bring out the foreground better, making a layer of that selection, and using Hue/Saturation to enrich the plants.

I'm generally satisfied, now, with the image, but there are some problems that I hope you can see & that I need your advice on. First, to the left of the mesa is a selection line that follows the ridge to the mesa. I can't understand why that's there. Second, to the right of the mesa, the lighter hills in the extreme background appear phony. These are areas that had the marching ants of the sky selection. I don't know what to do about them. What do you think?

Then, along the base of the mesa, where I started the selection of the foreground, on the right side, there is an obvious disconnect between the base of the mesa and the foreground. Do you have any suggestions for repairing this?

Finally, about 1/4 of the way in from the left, there is a column of lighter pixels, noticeable in the sky. Should I just use the Clone tool and/or the Healing Brush to repair this?

You've all been very helpful and have spent some time advising me, and I owe you some feedback on what I've done & where I am. Thanks.

Here's what I've done, so far.