About the Image(s)

Hello group 40 Happy December.
This is my last chance this year to learn something from the group. I am going to The Galapagos Islands next month for three weeks. This is the chance of a lifetime for a photographer. As a sort of warm up, I went to the Channel Islands National Park for a day with a group of 15 PSA members (mostly bird photographers). We walked all day and like other times when I shoot all day, I have nothing to show for it. I can either figure this out, or just take my phone and shoot with it (no offense if you are a iPhone photographer). My original was taken around 230 in the afternoon, and I was with a group, so that was when we got there. It was hazy, and overcast. I opened the image in Adobe Camera Raw and did all my adjustments and applied a gradient mask to the sky. I did not add any sky, just found it. I opened it in Silver efex pro and then added a filter to emulate film. I then added a vignette and ran it through a DeNoise filter. I know this is a little ambitious, but maybe someone can start from the beginning and tell me what you might have done. Thank you in advance. ISO 160 f/11 at 1/125s shutter speed.