Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We went to a local nursery today. It always has great holiday items. Here is a group of crystal style decorations. I took an HDR shot but the original looks better in this case.

Above is the HDR shot. It's washed out.

This looks better, but some work in an app will probably make it better. The GIMP or Photoshop could do wonders. 

Do you agree the standard photo looks better than the HDR?

I didn't really take many pictures this Halloween, but I did take this picture of one of the houses we went to. I thought my iPhone did pretty well, but I wish I'd had another camera. All I did to this picture was rotate it counterclockwise slightly and crop it just a little in Photoshop.