Hi Shakari,
Fancy swapping places for a few weeks & I'm sure you'll love the photo opportunities round Baldock (UK)
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I had a fiddle with your shot in Elements 3.0 using the shadow/highlight tool followed by brightness/contrast then a final tweak on saturation. It came out very noisy so had to run noiseware then a bit of USM. Don't know how bright it should be but it came out like this :-
Brian