This happened the other day. The sky was fairly interesting, I thought would make for some moody images with the sky and bare trees. Well, I got home and started to look at the images and they did not do it for me
But I guess at least I got out and shot some photosIMO this is a sign that you have the vision, but haven't quite honed the skills to put that vision into the images. That is one of the hardest things to do and takes a lot of practice. Also recognizing what will actually make a compelling image and what is not actually going to work even though it looks good to the eye (and the other way round - great images out of something that doesn't look that great initially). What ever anyone else thinks (and BTW I think your images look good), if you can't get what you are satisfied with, then it's just something to work on. Critiques are easy is there is something obviously technically wrong, but very hard if you somehow just feel you didn't quite capture subtleties in the feel or mood you were after.
Personally I find that often the images I'm most happy with come when I'm so frenetic in the field (due to changing light) that I'm not really sure what I got and usually have the feeling that I missed what I wanted. Maybe that just means I shouldn't over think too much or maybe it just happens when I in the 'zone'. and have more compositions in mind than I can take in the available time.
BTW, March Sunset2 I really like, but Sunset1, while the clouds are nice I don't get a sense of 'place' if you know what I mean. Also from an editing POV I would straighten the horizon and clone out the lampposts (they could be part of the 'sense of place', but without anything else they are just 'junk').
