Since you asked for CC... (man don't you hate reading a post that starts like this?
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I am, personally, not getting this.
I am not getting any good indication of scale. I assume (always a problem) that this is a picture of tall trees against a big cliff, but it could be brush against a small ledge.
This is a pretty flat exposure shot. I see the light grey from the trees and the dark grey from the cliff. I wonder if waiting for a different time where the cliff was better lit might work better
What was the focus of this photograph? The trees; the cliff; the contrast between the trees and the cliff; the pattern contrast between the trees and cliff? It is not clear to me as the viewer what I should be looking at. Without knowing what your focus was, I can't opine whether you need more cliff or more trees in the composition.
I don't know if it was possible, but perhaps the inclusion of either a little bit of the ground or a little bit of the sky, or the top of the cliff might help put this in perspective.
To me, this is a scene without any anchor. The trees are growing from something off frame and the cliff starts and ends somewhere off frame. This makes the perspective more difficult for me to appreciate.
That being written, I do have to admire your capture of the, to me, far more interesting patterns of the different layers of the cliff face. In fact, I zoomed in on this image to where it just had this layered cliff face and a few tree tops and, in my opinion, changed the photograph a lot as the cliff layered face made for a nice composition frame. In this case, the cliff becomes the anchor. But that's me. I would be interested in reading your thought process on this photograph and what your photographic intent was.
