thanks for the replies folks...@Frank, I used bracketed exposures, +1/-1...chose the best of three, the one which showed the foreground, had a completely overexposed sky, and the one with the exposure best for the sky, the foreground was black!..... I simply open both in CS3, copy into separate layers, cmd+opt+~(mac) to create a luminosity mask, so you can easily remove the bits you dont want....some resizing and highpass sharpening/unsharp mask...was the only other pw.