I was working on a couple of photos I took in November of Horseshoe Bend with the Improve Photography Travel Group and thought you’d be interested to see the difference that can be made to a photo that comes raw out of camera and has a little (or even a bit too much) of post-processing applied to it.
I used Lightroom for all of my processing work.

Before (raw photo)

After

Before (raw photo)

After (this is one that I think I over-processed)
Any thoughts or questions?