hahaha...ha. I'm FINISHED. I declare it now before I decide I'm not and end up trying to fix something else. I added more lights, more darks only just a bit because I didn't want heavy contrast in lights and darks. The sea is the darkest on the finished one (the left one! >_<) and the lightest points bounce back and forth between the ship's sail and through the animals. I didn't want a light focal point and a lot of the time the lightest may come with the object in the foreground, I wanted the focus back and forth in a fluent motion between the background and the foreground.  I usually focus on the fact that an image is a flat space so many times I will forget that tone matters. it does, i just forget sometimes is all...