Here comes the fire… 
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When the photo is good to start with - the processing is more of an interpretation of what we see.
Beautiful photo @lphilpot!
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I did some tests, but I ended up liking yours more, so I loaded your arp and cut out part of the foreground and some light, not very significant changes. Nice Shot.
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Greetings. Roberto
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Another beautiful photo, Len. I live in a similar part of the country, and I recognize the natural colors, so I didn’t feel a need to amp them up. dt 4.4.2
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You can remove those bits from the sidecar if they’re a problem. But at most you should just get a warning.
Thanks for the version!
Thanks!
Looking now after I posted it, I keep imagining the yellows are just ever so slightly greenish. But I did nothing to them, locally nor globally, and the white balance doesn’t look green to me. I’d have to compare against reality I guess. It’s not enough for me to alter the image, though.
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So I decided rather than chasing ultra sharpness and detail I applied the watercolor preset in the diffuse or sharpen module in DT. I reined in the effect using the opacity slider. I preferred this preset over the bloom option. I also imagine some of the filters in GIMP could be effective with this image.
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The foreground here is actually closer to how it looked than my version (it was just a touch darker in person). I went for a slightly darker-than-literal rendering in order to more enforce “vision travel”, i.e., starting at the dark bottom foreground and moving to the bright background. But yours in more strictly realistic.
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I only lightened the foreground because of the soft effect I was going for. On my sharper versions that I did not post here, I too went for a dark foreground to drag the viewers eye towards the autumn colors of the trees.
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Great photo! Thanks for sharing …
I used contrast equalizer to slightly decrease the sharpness in the trees and bushes, while increasing the contrast in the reflections in the water …
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I did my usual trick in the water of dropping the shadows only, slight desaturation and an even slighter faint bluish cast, all through a gradient mask.
Thanks.
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Really like your landscape/nature pictures… so, I couldn’t skip homework, of course! 
Here is a darker, more contrasty version…
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Thanks!
That really brings out the reflections in the water.
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