I think why you have been struggling with these types of 'complex' forest type shots David, is because of the abundance of green.
It always looks great to the eye and then through the viewfinder, but on the computer not so much and so more often than not loses its impact. Now I do not know if this is because green (and especially brightly saturated green) is such a difficult colour to digitise correctly and process etc, perhaps because of the tonal range and lack of separation, but whatever it is, I think we all tend to struggle with shots that are abundantly green. And it don't get much greener than a rain forest does it?
So what I have done, is to duplicate the original layer and then work on the new upper layer as a black and white, so I can add as much contrast as I like and whatever else I think the shot needs. Then set the layer mode of the upper black and white layer to luminosity mode, then duplicate that layer again and set it to colour, but take the opacity slider right down to a level that seems to work.
You could even try applying a black and white layer over the top of your original unworked layer and just scroll through the blend modes to see what happens, then drop a copy of the original layer over the top of it and then turn it back to colour mode and again tweak the opacity.
Or alternatively, just go for a mono version.
Either way, I like the shot as is
Dave
