Sitting on some older pictures, I had my fight with this one, to get it in the direction I want. Now mostly satisfied, I thought you may want to join this fight or at least simply have some fun:
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Thank you for this nice image! It was much more a pleasure than a fight 
The only fight was the Framing function of RawTherapee. I tried to use the blue sky colour and failed, so now it is white 
Very nice image!
Thanks for the play 
I tried to tame the foreground a little.
Here’s mine. Darktable, GMIC’s illustration filter and an Orton layer at 50% transparency. Is this Kinderdijk or Zaanse Schans by any chance?
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The first post was a little darker than I wanted so just a little brighter.
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Very “painterly” … I can’t improve it!
You don’t have to. It’s a Plaw Raw. And Play Raw is for having fun and improve yourself, by learning from others and seeing different approaches. So feel free to post your own edit with your own ideas no matter if it brings “improvement” or not. In the end everyone sees an image in a different way, so improvement is relative anyway. 
A beautiful photograph.
My play in GIMP. Increase of 1EV. changes to local contrast and increase of saturation for the sky and the water.
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I forgot some fine tunings…
