Ray of Light -- Reworked

This is reworked from the previous post based on suggestions, for which I am most grateful.
In CS3 I dodged some of the highlights and then used the high pass filter.

What do you think of it now? Is there still too much noise??
I think it came out much brighter and well defined. Do you see it so?

Thanks again, everyone.

Catherine I do notice an improvement here, less noise than before. And still the wonderful golden glow. Nice abstract.

Definitely a big improvement on the noise! Looks much better. I did a side-by-side for the sharpness and the revision is much improved. I'm wondering how much of the actual improvement we are seeing in the web-sized version. At this size, it looks like you could go a little further with the edge sharpening. I'll bet the full-size is beautiful. Great shot Catherine. I just love how light reflects in water and this shows it well.

I think this is wonderful, Catherine. I do like the overall scene, but I think it might be a tad stronger if you took the bottom portion and cropped it to square.

This is a strong abstract, Catherine, and the color and detail in the water is excellent.