I've got to agree with Megafyr on this one, the first one is the way to go, it only need a bit more love. Firstly, as stated the ground and the fences need to be better, I suggest you use the wooden doodads in "Refuge in Ruin" to manually make the fences yourself, then to add some "human faults" into it, not having it look perfectly symmetric, cause no man-made thing really was back then
Other than that, I really find the ochre on the right side, the small part, to look extremely spammed, I'd suggest you having something else there, or let it look like its just recently been sown, or something like that.
That and I really think you should work a little more on the lightning, use some glow doodads to make it a little more eye-catching, I would like to see IT being the center of focus, and I also disagree about both removing the rain, and making it heavier, its perfect as is.