A newbie exercise in textures and shading

I am a fairly new photographer hobbiest and I'd like to grab some opinions on one of my exercises in playing with highs, lows and textures.

All the images are of the same subject, a country road, but all with various lighting and effects.

I'd love to hear some feedback and/or suggestions that would have made these better.

Also, if any of them actually jump out at you, I'd love to hear that too.

Thanks

http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/1.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/2.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/3.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/4.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/5.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/6.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/7.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/8.jpg

Apparently Icloud doesn't want to load, I used two different browsers and allowed them three minutes to load, still not there yet.

loaded right up for me (safari)

loads right up for me (Chrome/Win7 64-bit)

Some are good, some not, a few jump out at me. But how do I convey which ones are which? You should just post the shots here and number them so we have reference and also don't have to click an external link.

Ok I'll try this. I think they may be too big to upload to the forum so I uploaded to my server.

http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/1.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/2.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/3.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/4.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/5.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/6.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/7.jpg
http://efreedommarketi​ng.com/tamlyn/8.jpg

They all look like they have a white light at the end of a tunnel. The trees draw my eye right to the light.

first thing's first. learn to resize haha

Oh I can resize, but images are on my iPad and any resize and upload combines to kill the image quality. At home now and in Photoshop so I can repost the entire images on here instead of links.


EDIT - I left the links intact, but resized them to 1024 and they load very quick now.

I'm hesitant to clutter up the thread with huge pictures and to downsize them too much will make the thread pointless because the details will be too small to matter, so I hope clicking links is ok with you folks who will be kind enough to have a look.

Guess not.

Sorry to have bothered you.