Walls of Jerusalem - C&C please

[Raizels]

The image needed a lot of cropping as the background was way overexposed.

Strange experience, where I'm standing on a mountain and the background is another mountain a valley away...

 

[D-B-J]

I like it, but i feel like there is too great a contrast between the dark wall and the almost blown background.

 

[Raizels]

How would I correct that w/o reverting to a blown out background?

 

[pbelarge]

Do you have a program to work with, such as corel or photoshop?

 

[Raizels]

I use GIMP.

 

[stone_family3]

Maybe it's just me but it feels too blue.