Dan, thanks for the feedback. I agree with you about the top two. I went back and converted the image again in Elements and got a similar result. I did lower the exposure/contrast. The result was a much darker image. I then tried to lighten using levels within Elements. Things improved a little but not much.
Elements:
LightZone:
I do not mean to blame Elements as I am sure that I do not know how to get the most from an image using it. I am going to test several other images, too. At the moment I far prefer the workflow of Elements with ACR. But I find LightZone far more intuitive to use and get results I like. At Db2 suggestion I will also try Bibble.
Here is one more done in LightZone:
