Hello David, I haven’t commented on the little X thread for a while, but I have been lurking.
This poppy picture has a great deal of promise. I love it.
Not wanting to teach my grandmother to suck eggs but you have had a go at cloning, was it the pylon and cables? Then, using your words, failed.
Well “I think” and I know how dangerous that can be, you didn’t fail you gave up.
Cloning is all about patience, do a bit, leave it, go back and do a bit more.
Use all the tools at your disposal brushes, clone, content aware, cut and paste, patch, everything you can lay your hands on.
You don’t have to do it all at once, a picture can take time, take it.
I have taken the liberty of completing the cloning. I hope you don’t mind.
I just thought it deserved a bit of time.
Rhodese.