Well Roger, I'm not sure how to tell you this, but this latest version looks more to me like an HDR image than your HDR version does

In your HDR version there was a lot of lost detail in both highlights + shadows (which defeats the object of HDR), whereas with this version all the detail is there!
One criticism ... I don't think you should've cropped it

It puts the horizon in the middle + loses a lot of that lovely cloud, which is now properly exposed in this version
Well done, you got there in the end
Edit: Looking at it again today, I like the crop after all
