driftwood

[Theo]

[eob]

Very harsh contrast and graininess of the foreground is fine, but, in my eyes, the soft de-focused background does not look its best in this kind of processing.

[aprilS]

It's an interesting juxtaposition of near and far, similar and different, compressing the distance.

Yet I agree with eob, in that the background takes on a character which is so different as to look like another image, or process. The two don't hold together as one thought, for me.