Two images for focus stacking (one for the weed in front and one for the rest). In addition the sky of the image with focus in the distance was copied onto itself with maximum highlight recovery, so in the final result there are 3 partial layers.
Full processing:
1) Lens correction and slight rotation
2) 3 layer copy as explained above
3) crop
4) curves
5) unsharp mask
6) resize for dpc and a very small unsharp mask
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You've stolen my former view :-) That looks so hauntingly like my marshy hangout on Cape Cod before we moved off-cape to the mainland a few years ago. It was a pleasure to view this in voting and feel right at home. I love the soft, muted rendering.