RE: Buggy Action Photos - Which photo?
Id have to say the 3rd looks the clearest, but a bit too unnatural. The blues are through the roof on that version of the picture.
When I first got into photo editing I seemed to lean towards bluer looks better. However over time I learned to gauge it down a bit. Honestly you did some good work cleaning up the 3rd picture, just scale down the blue a tad (might be under white balance depending on the program) and you will have a certain clearcut winner.
Hope that helped.
Regards,
-Evo-