At last, a dog in a really great setting, unless I've missed one. Did I?
I didn't see the point of the first picture when you can produce pictures like the second one.
The first picture has major compositional problems, IMHO. The subject is the dog, but really it is lost in the incomplete landscape. Now there is magic there, but I'll come back to that.
The second picture, however, is much more captivating right away and has a subject: the dog, more so, a wet one. Ahah! so now I have to go back to the first picture.
What to do. Just my way of looking at things, I am going to crop the first image to show two parts. The water and the dog. Essentially, we perhaps ask now, "How they might interact?"
Now I like them both and the first with detail in the water would look very nice on my wall!
Asher
BTW, how did you do the B&W conversion and did the dog approve?