i quite like idea of the pylons in pic2 - the second one is so faded its hardly there anyway, but the closer one does look a bit funny in that only the top half is legible (just my opinion)
do you, or anyone else for that matter, ever worry about their sensor when taking pictures into a bright sun? i heard its not too good for its health... something about skin cancer i think!
Ah, that first one is so soft, everything is painted in muted colours, I really like that!
The sky is interesting in the second, so are the reflections, but I am not quite so sure about the glaring white of the sun ... I kind of prefer the softness of Photo 1.
The lighting was actually very soft from the sun in pic 2. It was a little dark, so I had to slow down the shutter and open up my aperture as little as possible to keep a long DOF. That made the sun a bit of a blob, but a sacrifice had to be made.
Thanks for the comments!