much better. i rock ms paint.

 

For some reason through your processing it turned some of the white areas blue, ie the grill is blue and parts of the flag in your night shots are blue.
I see from the exif in your photos you have a D80, if you spend a little more time learning the metering and getting a proper exposure you will be able to get the desired effect with out extensive post processing such as HDR (for this example anyway).