I think you have some nice working going on here. The light on the first image is quite nice, and you made good use of the trees at Dead Vlei. You lost me a bit with the HDR images though. I would suggest skipping HDR all together, and doing a manual blend if necessary.
Thank you for taking your time to process and share these with us; they are great! I love the first one - the lighting is so unique that it is one of those "right place at the right time" type of image. May not ever be dublicated!
