I like the image and @houz edit, hence I stole the crop. For my personal taste I would like the colours to look a little more natural, whilst still trying to maximize the saturation.
A couple of attempts in RawTherapee shamefully still on 4.2 .
First with the usual tools, I was fairly happy, except I didn’t like the whiteness of the water.
Very nice image to work on, thanks.
I wanted to -
o Have a square crop with the left tree-line diagonal going into the top corner.
o Increase the contrast in the sky and recover those highlights.
o Increase the saturation, especially in those beautiful red rocks
o Bring out the detail in the rocks
o Hang it in a frame
@MLC Your attempt complements mine well. It is the calm before the storm. In my area, it is billowing clouds one day and thunderstorms the next. Too bad my dog has PTSD when it comes to inclement weather.
Didn’t play with the raw to get an outcome. Did in Light zone but didn’t like what came out so I took your jpg and played with it in gimp Ran National Geographic filter with a blue tint then healed the stick out, Oh I also got rid of the blue jetty (I think)