-Handheld, Manual mode
-RGB Curve
-Separate RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves through masks to trees and foreground
-Crop from bottom
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 7/10 = 268KB
Statistics
Place: 63 out of 95 Avg (all users): 5.3913 Avg (commenters): 8.0000 Avg (participants): 5.3023 Avg (non-participants): 5.4444 Views since voting: 711 Views during voting: 192 Votes: 115 Comments: 2 Favorites: 0
This is a photo that made people pause and look at it again. Although your alt entries were more full of tree, this was probably your best bet, scorewise and interest-wise, imo.