Edit Me An Image #34 - "Snow storm"

General rules:

• A previous round winner presents a busy or just not so interesting image, having at least some potential for different crops or visions.
• Anyone (except author of original image) can edit the presented image, up to three distinct edits in separate posts are permitted.
• All edits must be based on original image, not on another people's edits (of course borrowing ideas would not be a problem).
• Short explanations about your editing intentions and/or techniques are encouraged, but not required.

Editing rules:

• All "normal" adjustments (brightness, colours, curves etc) are permitted (both local and global ones).
• All geometric adjustments (perspective, cropping etc) are permitted.
• Artistic effects (brushes, textures etc) are allowed.
• No additions or replacements may be made to the main subject matter of the image; non-essential objects may be removed, and parts of the original image can be "moved" to a different position in the image. Sky replacements are OK unless the sky is the main subject..
• Generative AI must not be used.

Timing:
Get your images posted by July 7. As always, you can vote during the entire contest plus one day after the image submission deadline. I'll post reminders.

RAW
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3bwwlm17mymphonsiw9js/5D4_8508.CR2?rlkey=eb43fixlem5yt1h4epp71eeoi&st=53v12ssz&dl=0

TIF
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xtdy52jy7fgaiqcqxotaf/20230325113417_5D4_8508.tif?rlkey=9nl8210zfcmtri9u9rcq46heq&st=hsdgepdp&dl=0

DXO

Cropped, Removed light, Reduced the top on central pole, so it stay into the three, Reduced a little light for a white cloud.

Applied Noise reduction.

Dark Windy Day

Quick edit as my first try. This one took quite a lot to pull out something I liked due to the palette being a bit buried in all that snow!

I actually avoided any denoising at all. Worked with the colors, moved the shadows and highlights around, and pushed on the colors a bit. Worked with the microcontrast (but not global) to push down the airborne snow a bit. Then I applied a Fuji Velvia 100 color tuning and really liked it. Cropped it to 4:3 because I didn't like any squares I found, and that let me anchor the image with the houses, foreground horizon, and mountains on the 1/3 sightlines.

The image is intentionally a mix of balanced and unbalanced perspectives here. I like the slope from left to right and the countered ridgeline giving a sense of visual tension that might be hard to place.

Lovely scene!
Here with a few global and local tweaks to the tone curves

First effort is in monochrome.

Nice, I liked the splashes of colour.

A color version...

Final try

OUCH!!

That was the title I was looking for !!

I was thinking a second edit on the right part ... just like you did 😂

DXO same edit the first try

Sinking in a Dark Windy Day

DXO same edit of the two previous try.

Some Sun Lurking in a Dark Windy Day

don't forget to vote, only a few days left

Thanks for your insights into the various edits.

@AlanSh
That's an edit that reflects reality that day.

Othesr:
Other: It was a day of extremes: sunshine and a clear blue sky, contrasted by a powdery snow storm. Almost all edits show that day as it was.