lovely images and stunning cloud structures. i took loads of images last week with the same misty sun. no 1 can look good with a close up as well. Cheers Madeleine
#1 has a beautiful color and atmosphere but I think the total balance and composition will improve much when you decentralise the sun, e.g. more in the right top. We love to look out of the dark towards the light (not only at the end of our life we like that ;)), so if you have the sun more in the top corner, the enormous space on the left would create a lot of tense in the total composition.
#2: really impressive clouds and light. Silhouettes are always difficult to place in a picture because you mostly cut off very abrupt the elements. And if you don’t, you might end up with a very large and disturbing black plane (is that the right word?). However, in this picture you definitely need the foreground to give a foundation and scale to the clouds. So, I think you made the right choice…