I was playing around with this as a possibility for the TTITC for June 4, but could not get it to blur "enough" for the challenge. But I do like the image. The noise reduction softens it. I also saturated the color.
You certainly recreated and enhanced an already beautiful scene......it appears that you distanced the tonal extremes for better optical and emotional definition....and I believe that is good for most images, especially scenery! "If it weren't for the darkness there would be no need for the light."