Your earlier image seemed a little light on fractals to me, but I would not have objected to having it in the fractal gallery if that was where you felt more at home. This one is much more focused on the fractal, and it too would be fine in the fractal gallery. It's not so much the post processing as it is the artist's feeling about the image. If you think it's a fractal, post it here, IMO. I rarely do much post processing, but that's mostly because I have little skill with it! I try to do most of my work in UF, and when you look at UF, you will see that a lot of the features really are post processing! It can do layers, textures, merge modes...many of the things that people with other fractal programs would consider postwork. I hope that helps.

Fractals will always amaze me!