Photoshop Practice

Along with my fancy new camera, I am trying to sharpen my photoshop & editing skills. It's really neat when I look at my straight out of camera shots and think "hey that looks pretty good" but it's even neater to look at a photo after I've edited it and think "wow, that looks awesome!". Here is my first attempt at some processing in photoshop. I've included my straight out of camera shot first, followed by the edit.

I thought that the original image captured the afternoon sunlight pretty well, but after some edits I realize that the potential was much greater. I am very happy with how my first photoshop edit turned out. I can't wait to edit more photos!