It seems that my previous post created a bit of a stir with a few requests for a tutorial added to the site and many more sent by email. I have therefore bowed to public pressure and added a tutorial to my Lenscraft site describing how the image was captured and then processed. There may be a few surprises in there for some of you. Here is the link
http://lenscraft.co.uk/resource-hub/tutorials/
And for those of you wanting to see the starting image, here it is.
Hope you enjoy.
The Lightweight Photographer 
beautiful and excellent contrast 🙂
Thank you. I really appreciate the positive feedback from everyone about this image.