Awesome! I like the 2nd and last pics most. Re equipment, I imagine having a long zoom, image stabilization and rapid fire sequential image capture important features to improve yield for memorable pics. How zoomed were you?

Hi there. Thanks for sharing. My two bits, which ironically also not worth much...I better like the stronger moodiness of your second image. And in line with someone's constructive criticism about not liking cropped trees; my thoughts would be to crop even tighter so branch silhouettes fill the frame, and the glow from the sun fills more of the image and has a more dramatic impact. Might change what you intended to invoke though.