I suppose it's time to declare a winner (BTW not easy at all), A huge thanks to every one who participated!
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All 3 in one! This, did surprised me, and the "fusion" was well done.
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A try at this one - great light rays: no need to "augment" those - looking a bit William Blake. Started in Aurora HDR to bring up details; some adjustments there and then Luminar 4 plugin for some adjustable gradients - bringing out land details, very slight rotation, contrast and colour sliders; then to Topaz Sharpen for a very light treatment. No cropping - wanted to keep all the clouds.
I love the coulors! A very vivid image which is not to displease me, in fact I love this colorful "gradient", but on my screen it looks a bit too much sharpened, the different parts of the sky where the light-rays come from are gray-blue (I should tell that the pseudo-photographer who took this picture was so bad that he blew the highlights up 
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1. PhotoLab 4 > denoise & Lens correction > Export as DNG
1a SNS-HDR
1b Photoshp/ACR > minor adjustments > Crop & Sharpen
2. Start with SNS output 1a
2a Luminar AI > Replace sky and foreground
2b Photoshop > crop > sharpen
Nice job to remove the noise on the first one, I also like the new sky and background on the second one (thanks to Lucy Mace 
), I would have removed the "splash" on the sky on the right side, though.
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1. DxO PL4 > denoise and lens correction > Export as DNG
2. SNS-HDR
3. Photoshop/ACR > Levels > Reclaim highlights > Topaz Clarity > Crop and resize.
I like it! But the different "blown out "parts of the sky where the light-rays come from are a bit too much "re-enforced", but the fault is with the pseudo-photographer who screwed up those highlights 
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On all 3 photos: PL4 NR and optical corrections, adjust selective tone and contrast and vibrancy, add vignette.
In the same "spirit" as I did years ago! You did a better job than me on the mangroves which are clean up to the horizon.
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This one as well, I like how you brought back the colours, also you did a better job on darkening/denoising the sky than me.
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You did pop up the contrast as well, very clean process, I like it!
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Long distance runner - just a cut and paste job!
I like the story, although, I feel that the scale of the runner don't match the road
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I was not happy with my first attempt with this image. This one was processed with Aurora (warm landscape) There is even a little deep shadow recovery but can I see artefacts along the sky/land border?
Yes! way better this one, it's like night and day compared to the first one IMHO, great job.
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I love the gradient color(green - orange then a beautiful blue gradient) on the Rob's first edit, Mark did a better job than me on a more "classic" editing, especially by bringing back a more natural colors of the mangroves and overall. I love the sky color in Martin's last edit, and Mozes just surprised me with his 3 in 1.
At the end, I have hesitate a lot between Mark and Mozes, as Mark (IMHO) did a better job than me on the "classical" side (mangroves are clean up to the horizon and the bridge's colors and lights, a bit vivid, but I like them), but I did not expect than some one would take the 3 "imposed" pictures and made one nice editing (the bridge over the runner is flawless, bravo!).
Mozes you are the winner, that was a clean 3 in 1, and I love the story, over to you
