Ben

both are very good works for sure. Yeah darker trees in the distance or less saturatedas it will blend them into the 'atmospherics' of the image giving the sense of depth.

If I were to point anything out it would be watch your edges. They are very rough right now. Did you use feathering? I know cutting trees and plant life out can be difficult but it can be done by duping the image andconverting to greyscale, then using levels in PS. Use the black pipette and white pipette to determine the black and white values of the image. this will then in turn create a high contrast of black and white in the image, which will then give you the beginnings of an Alpha channel to cut out your image in the original color image. It does take a bit of tuning to do it properly but it works well. We've been using a similar technique at work

other wise keep at it - looking good

Jay