Oh how I love this place. John your pictures always look so much better than mine! lol
I would not say that.
Biggest difference between yours and mine as I see it is exposure. Mine tend to be under exposed and yours over exposed.
Under exposing can make the colors seem richer, but much is lost in the shadows. Over exposing often bleaches out the colors.
It should be noted that in that last panorama I posted, it could have used some de-saturation after all the processing I put it through. So very hard to reign in and "keep it real" sometimes.
The sky is way too blue.