Photography and Photoshop

My wonderful husband got me Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 for Christmas. I bought a book to learn all of it's capabilities, but in the mean time, I've been messing around with it some. I took the first picture of our light post after the major ice storm we had here. Pretty cool image, right? The second image was after a little Photoshop magic. So much better! :) I'm still learning the nuances of the program, but I'm hoping my "Classroom in a Book" clears things up, so I can get even more functionality out of the program.