In your editing you’ve lost all the colour in the sky, which is a shame as you have some good colour in the sky. I don’t know if your editor supports it but try and edit the sky seperate to the ground.
I’m at work so don’t have my editor available, but just in windows basic options here’s this:
To be honest i think i was concentrating more on the body of the image and forgot about the sky, but you are right. I need learn more about the software and how i could apply a mask etc. rather than just adjusting levels and so on.