C&C please on processing

TThorne wrote:

Okay, last time, I promise. These two are the same, just cropped and uncropped. I went about it making the most minimal adjustments I could to the raw file to keep it as natural as possible. I then applied a grad ND filter in Nik Color Efex Pro:

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