nolad -
the picture you posted of the badlands has a serious red cast to it. did you do this intentionally, or is that pretty much the way your shot looks. i just have the very small file available to me here, of course, but i ran a very basic curves adjustment on it, & to my eye, gave it a vast improvement. i would think with the full-size file that this image could be made quite nice. did you shoot it in RAW, or jpeg? hope you don't object to my playing with your file - i attached my play with it.
jp