I'm picking up the commenting on blogs with the #aap tag again.
The clouds on the first photo look really nice. In the other photo's they are a bit more washed out. Maybe you could have done something in after editing.
I like the one with the pole and the 'wavy' building in the background. That building would be a perfect subject for an architecture shoot by the way.
The bird shots are nice, but I would experiment a bit by not placing them in the middle of your photo every time. Sometimes it is nice to make them fly in your photo from the bottom corner and to have some more negative space.
Yes, you are right about the composition.
However, I did both on purpose. As I want to highlight the landscape behind, the photo is not about the bird. It's about the difficult environment. That misty landscape and the bird flying alone. Boring, lonely, but wanting to fly. Actually, it's all to do with the text.
If I cropped the photo I would lose the landscape. And I only took two pictures of the landscape while the bird was flying. I left it like that. But I don't take away your point on the technical issue.
As for the clouds, they were changing and the white buildings and the sky felt like that as a way of expressing clarity.
In the one with the bird flying over the sea... I didn't want to lose that cloud formation. And I thought it was also convenient that it was right there.
That's just my thought, trying to match the pictures with the text I'm writing. But you know, it's all very subjective.
I thank you very much for your comment pointing it out.
Thanks for the explanation. I must admit I didn't have (or take) the time to read the whole blog 😬
Then it makes more sense indeed.