RE: Hooker Valley
You may be a professional photographer but you are certainly lacking in professionalism. From your constant advertising of your Flickr page I see you have photos of concerts. Not landscape photography, not travel photography, not portrait photography, not fine art photography, not wedding photography etc etc. So your opinion of anything other than photos of musicians on a stage is not worth 2 cents.
I won't comment on your photography because my experience as a professional photographer is in fine art landscape and travel photography. Of which this image has won an award at a national level from a professional photography institution.
Some parts of the clouds appear blown out in this smaller resolution but my histogram of the full resolution says otherwise. Even if they were, so what? Some of the stage lights in your photos are blown out. That doesn't make it a bad photo does it?
And my style of art is all about bright and vibrant colours. I like deep blues.
Thanks for awarding me points on effort. That's very nice of you. You get a big thumbs up from me too for all your efforts.