Photographers that read this journal! Your input is wanted!

[drewbear]

As a continuation of the previous post (and to save your poor bandwidth), I've included the other shot I wanted to discuss in this post.

This morning (before I learned of my timing mixup), I took a shot of an airplane traveling overhead towards clear sky. I did some editting on it to improve the contrast and clarity, and I wanted to get your opinions. Also, sfopanda? What do you do to your photos to keep that high detail and color?

Here's the original (though shrunk):



Here's the editted version I made:



Thanks for your input.

EDIT: Crap. I didn't realize that the pixelation on the editted on was that bad. Lemme see what I can do to correct that...