I liked your first photograph. It took many days to create it.
Haha not days, but it probably took 30 minutes to combine the photos since I used Gimp. Gimp is an open source image editor (think Photoshop libre). It's extremely powerful but not very intuitive. Anyways, I'd like to improve my Gimp skills, so I bit the bullet regarding the outrageous pain in the ass it was to put two photos side-by-side.