The next time you desire contest selection advice, it's suggested that you confine your request to photographers that have won medals & HM awards in contests & have judged a variety of different categories.- otherwise, you are better off making your own selections. Although you have a lot of good pics, you need to pay attention to cropping to improve composition by deleting nagative space. if you have a front view pic of the cabin, select the door & left window area for competition entry - it would also make a good entry for the Kentucky Parks Calendar Contest.

Being a former international exhibition entrant & judging panel member in this field, here are my picks -
Portraits: #1 with some cropping off left side & top.
Creative - #3, although Historical #1 would make excellent entry - if local or area judge has ever worked in this
field to properly evaluate such subject matter.
Fauna: #1
Historical: #1

Would have liked to have seen your two selections.

The suggested crop would better enhance picture interest by removing excess base amount.
Also, remove protruding branch left side & upper right corner & slightly darken bright wet base areas & wall section.

Here 's your center of interest - the rest is negative space.

This cropped version would make another interesting shot of the island.

2 cropped versions would better emphasize the dead tree - the center of interest.

Composition-wise, a tighter crop js preferred to best emphasize the points of interests.

To the nay sayer regarding the cropped version - only this composed pic would be accepted in any photo competition.

A cropped version - by getting rid of all the negative space, would best cover the the center of interest - the mill.

Sorry, couldn't tell if my cropped version of your #4 pic got attached or not.

#4 - with a tighter crop would produce a good calendar & competition shot. Also, get rid of the sign or at least darken it & superimpose the gull in #6 above the wave spray right side. The curling wave at the base also adds to picture value. This is a wall hanger!

It's suggested that the local camera club be contacted for assistance.

Although you could have cropped the picture to reduce much of the blank sky & water areas, it's not in sharp focus
& a little too bright. Would have preferred a different viewpoint - to the right, so that more of the tall bldgs. on the left side were included. The mass of out of focus leaf area is also a major distraction.

#1 is preferred, but needs to be cropped to improve the composition - too much negative space.

Your idiotic response is what's expected from someone who can't accept obvious picture improvement with just
obvious needed cropping.