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Finally, here are a few other starting images that seem to be straight OOTC (out of the camera) with little or no PP, and taken in lighting / weather conditions much closer to those of the goal image. 

Notice how these look much closer to the goal image without even doing any work whatsoever on them in PS.

As I said, get it right in the camera, and your life behind the computer will be greatly simplified   .

Tom M

PS - BTW, to find these three images, I went to Google Images and searched on something simple like {overcast day mountains}.