Touching up Old Butterfly JPEGs (Part 1)

Being winter (and being kind of a wimp about taking my camera outside in the cold), I have been going through my old (ok, last year -- 2012) Canon XTi JPEG photo files and seeing what I can do with them in Photomatix.

These images in this particular series come from one of my trips to Mackinac Island. If you have the time to stop into The Butterfly House (and if you actually like butterflies), I think you will find this place to be a real treat.

Here's my original file:

And here's the file touched up in Photomatix. (The difference is quite striking.)