Amazing depth.

Another beauty. B&W ftw again. Very nice how transluscent the spikes are.

B&W a great choice to really bring out the spiky character.

Wondering how long the teddies last. This scene seems familiar with the background buildings; don't have time now to compare with older pix, but strikes me it might be interesting to see how much they change over time.

Terrific pop; great colours and detail.

Nice effect, although Teddy looks a tad overwhelmed by her neighbours. At the same time I like the band of light at the top, vs the scattered highlights through the dark base. NIK Color Efex Pro 4 has a filter "Darken/Lighten centre"; was this part of your trickery?

Ripper DA15 image! Blinder of a sunburst and really like how the backlit log margins,and the bunch of ferns leap out of the darkness along the diagonal. I haven't seen the original, but I reckon you'd be hard-pressed to improve on what you have here.

That's a huge lift compared to the original! Very nicely done.
Enjoyed looking through some of the other China pix again too - good that you took so many; I don't think Americans or Australians will be welcome there any time soon.

While I'm here - where did that Mermaid Cove redux end up. I've scouted PF a few times now without any luck - was it actually a part of a PF challenge or was it with another forum?

Hard call. I quite like the warmer shift in the redux and the slight taming of the uppermost lights, but the lower/more distant ones have lost too much presence imho, most noticeable in the big burstie on the glass wall. I prefer the brighter foreground impact in the original too (just). Seeing this again reminds me of how nicely the DA15 does bursties; I went out last night specifically for DA21 stopped down bursties, and while happy with the results, the DA15 wins.

bigr on flickr and here is the original:
https://www.tmphillips.com/pg/picture.php?/4072/category/14

it's the b-side to the other pov and imo failed to improve it but was worth a try.