Thanks for the comments, all.
Here are my suggested croppings for top and bottom versions (sorry, Russ):
Eric, I have as you know a much more relaxed attitude to cropping than Russ and you and I usually find ourselves in agreement. But this time, I'll echo his comment:
Arrrrggggg. . .! and add one of mine:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!Your photographs are both interesting, but they're nowhere near what I was aiming for, as my title implied. I wanted a tiny boat, dwarfed by huge cliffs. Your upper crop removes the boat; and your lower, the scale. Your crops are a noble attempt to salvage my failure, if such it be. Sorry.
I was not with Jeremy but it looks like it was taken from Dead Horse Point (near the Canyonlands as you rightly guessed).
Spot on, François. It was a bit late in the morning for the best light, but I'd just been at Mesa Arch and I had to allow time for my hands to defrost.
Interesting. Very magenta.
Not on my screen. I'll recalibrate it when I get a chance. Easily fixed with LR's tone slider, if true, though. Stamper's point about the shadows might end up getting fixed at the same time.
Jeremy