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I doesn't do much for me in terms of subject matter and composition. The shape of the dead wood in the foreground is interesting but the chopped off tree truck in the background is a strong vertical leading line straight up and out the top of the frame.
The image has a full tonal range in that there isn't much clipping on either end, but the 3/4 tones are "blocked" meaning that the normal progression of gray scale steps you'd see in person are missing. The tonal range jumps from black and nearly black (Zone 0 and 1) to middletones (Zones 5 -6) with very little in the Zone 2-4 range.
I would suspect you could coax more detail out of the RAW will Fill, Blacks, Brightness and Contrast adjustments in ACR but even then content- / message it would fall short for me. The white mat is also distracting, fighting the shadow detail in the image for attention. Try a black one and compare the difference — you'll perceive more detail in the shadows.
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