Nope definitely not blown a perfect shot :) That second one is really very beautiful Brenda, I like that one a lot. I would perhaps work it a bit in PS, but only because that is my way. It illustrates the point I was trying to make perfectly too. Different background = different exposure chosen by the camera. Here it has averaged perfectly because there were no extremes of tone.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html