I like your first photograph best. What struck me was initial illusion that the illuminated fog near the lower left were actually clouds in the sky at sunrise/sunset, and that the remaining hills leading back into the distance were also clouds. Then exploring the rest of the picture it becomes clear what is really being viewed. Well done.
Andrew
p.s. not suggesting you do this but had you cropped the photo to about the lower half only, I think most viewer's would never catch on to what I described above unless they spent a lot of time studying the photograph.
