Hot Springs Version II

I was quite excited about the cropped version of this image I showed last night, but when I printed it (all be it bravely 24X36) it wasn't painterly, it was garish. Perhaps I'd oversharpened, perhaps it was the use of Akvis Enhancer when not appropriate, but I think it simply didn't work in a big image - I'd thought you'd move in to see brush strokes but the fine detail was visible across the room and the overview was missing at any distance.

I therefore started over tonight with the original three image stitch. I did crop a bit off the left to clean up the upper left corner, then stretched the upper left corner to eliminate even more and am happy with the result. I didn't oversharpen, I didn't use Akvis Enhancer this time. I did darken it considerably and the 'ice flowers' were lightened to make show a bit better.