Rich-
All your Moab photos are awesome. They make me want to be there. And I think that's the best compliment I can give an outdoor sports photographer. Plus, you and I have a similar, landscape/sports aesthetic. So your photos always speak to me.
About the post processing. What are you doing? It looks to me like you either started using some new RAW conversion tools (shadows?) or you discovered adjustment layer masks in Photoshop. The things is, it looks overdone to me. There's a ton of detail and that's cool. But there's no black anymore and they don't look natural. I guess some of my photos don't look natural, either. But try backing off on the shadows a little so that they're really shadows. Opening them up is good - I do it, too. But do it carefully.
Of course, it may come down to a difference in taste. But take a hard look at the recent batch and someone elses good photos and see what you think. Back it off a little and see if you don't like them better.
Please let me know how you did the processing, too. I'm curious. There are so many tools available now - so many different ways to get the same thing done. It's interesting to see how other people do it.
Photo-John
“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety...” - Ansel Adams
