Wolfgang, I loved the first one immediately. The second was more of a creeper (took a while to grow on me). Excellent compositions and use of colour and texture.
And Tom, also a lovely image. Viewers can be philistines. It's like "which bit are you missing?".... All of it I guess.
It's something I love love about OPF, if it falls flat, it's usually because the image is not so good not because the audience is daft or uneducated.