These pictures strike me as pure craft. You need to drop anywhere from $1000 on upwards on equipment, and then you need to work at it and expend effort, time, and money giving yourself the opportunity to be in the right spot, with the right gear, and a properly trained set of reflexes. None of this is to be dismissed, but these pictures are in a sense "easy." The internet is stuffed full of these things, there are 10s of 1000s of people who pump these things out.
Now, Stephen Waddell (Scotiabank winner) strikes me as a guy who is making pictures that signify nothing, and burying that fact in inscrutability. Still, I have to allow that perhaps I am missing it.
I am not *certain* that Waddell's pictures are empty. Which is not nearly as good as pictures that are filled with ideas, but it's a step up from pictures which are obviously empty. The pictures cited here are the latter sort. Technically wonderful, conceptually empty.
It's not really a judgement, just horses for courses.