You are moving in a better direction with the second edit. You got rid of the scary neon blue vignetting and disposed of the power lines and rusty fencepost. I fear it is still true that the original is overexposed as noted by winter rose. Usually HDR is done when you've got trouble getting all the parts of your photo exposed in one shot, but I suspect here you are mainly playing with your image to figure out what your software will do. You seem to me like you're a playful photographer, which I appreciate, as many of us take ourselves so seriously it can become painful. Most of my blisterings on internet forums have been because I wasn't deemed serious enough.

As is, with this photo, you may not have enough data to work with in HDR. Yes, you should reshoot, but you can also have some fun with what you have. I don't get the feeling you're trying to enter it into contests at this point. So, keep experimenting.

Because I can't resist playing with images either, I did. I ended up with about the same crop as dpullum's but I didn't flip it over like he did. I attempted to subdue its wild colors by lowering exposure till the ends of the tree branches achieved some detail, then I remapped the colors to something less phosphorescent in Topaz Restyle.

Keep having fun and sharing!

It seems you wanted to get the feel of the water tank. Using that as my goal, I cropped the pic to put the tank higher, which makes it dominate the pic more, especially since it is the darkest item. Then I worked on the values, to keep the tank while adjusting for the over exposure in the ground (auto exposure, then darkened the darks and brought up the mid tones, and burned the highlights 10%). This made the tank color too "Disney," so I lowered the saturation.

I like your eye. Keep shooting, boots, and look at and read about composition to bring out in the shot what you sensed in the scene you shot.

I agree with the comments of tainkc, this is just way over done. Tone mapping can be done to bring out details and textures making the image have greater impact, or it can be over done. Guess what, we have all gone a bit over the top as we learned to find our way.

Beyond the obvious I'd ask why you didn't move a bit closer to the tank and eliminate the fence and fencepost from the scene. One simple rule of thumb to use is this: if an element doesn't add to the actual subject of the scene eliminate it. Simplicity is the strongest method of composition. Additionally, a move to your right or left might have eliminated those wires above the break in the trees.

Old Boots, a lot of people do what you have done here.
They try to bypass photography basics and go straight to advanced processing.
Instead of trying your hand at HDR, I suggest that you back up a step or two and study the basic composition guidelines.
Ziggykor gives very good advice when he says simplicity is the strongest method of composition.
Some mistakes in your composition, you have placed your subject in the centre, which can work sometimes, but with a messy confused background it hardly ever works.
As has been mentioned you have distracting objects such as the fence and the wires and uneven flora in your photo.
It looks like you have probably taken the photo from the "easy" spot to get to. Instead of doing this, maybe next time you could go to the "best" spot to get to.
Only with knowledge of composition can you determine where this actual "spot" is.

Right. Again, Adobe could have thought things through a little more carefully. My son used Elements Premiere for a while, but he prefers PowerDirector for video.

I'm staying with Elements 11. Maybe Elements 13 or 14 will persuade me to update. Speaking of Elements 13, I wonder if that name will deter people from buying.

I was making reservations on jetBlue, and the agent asked me if Seat 13 was okay, or if I wanted another. I stayed with #13. I figure if the place goes down, all the seats will go with it.