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The composition, exposure and colors of all of these photos are A++. What kind of post processing if any did you do.
As I tell all my students, it's usually pretty basic. With a well-exposed, high quality capture from the field, all that's involved are slight increases in contrast & saturation, along with proper sharpening.
For contrast, black point in Levels, slight contrast tweeking in Curves, and Local Contrast Enhancement in USM (Amt: 20%; Rad: 50 pixels; Thrshld: 0).
For saturation, master saturation in Hue/Sat along with color specific tweaks as needed.
Sharpening is three pass Photokit Sharpener methodology (capture/creative/output).
All are done using adjustment layers, most done globally but some use of layer masks for local adjustments.
Think of it as simply as Contrast, Saturation, and Sharpening and as you move up the learning curve, your ability to do each with more sophistication will increase. Tim Grey's Photoshop for Nature Photographers is a pretty good all around book with a good couple of introductory chapters on proper techniques in the field to maximize your digital file for the darkroom later.
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What a place!
It was a pleasure scoping out a number of these areas with ya on your last go around. 
You definitely selected the cream of the crop for your post here. Of course, I'm biased towards "The Bathtub" image as my favorite!