Hey, Clancy: I love the colors in both of these photos, and these kinds of things are fun to do. The thing is... if you like them -- they're cool. But you can also make a somewhat boring photo (as you say) better in PhotoShop. Here's #1 with a little cropped off the right side, as Ron suggested, and also with an overall "blur" and then selective erase on the main area of interest. I also selected a section in the lower left corner and darkened it a bit. Not sure this version is really better. But playing around like this in PhotoShop is fun. Good luck with it.