Freaky: Use the primes for such pics, the shallow DOF would create interesting picture. Your last pic can be made sharper and more colorful in PP..
Sei: In your 1st pic, the focus area is getting cropped out, you could have lowered the camera a lil bit more. The second pic is nice.
Thomas: lovely pic, use the share with BB code next time..
Freaky, I have taken the liberty to download your image from flickr and pimp up vibrance and saturation...also cropped little to make flower off center..below is the result...
Yeah, like I said this was my first time with HDR so there are still areas I need to work on. Maybe I should have removed the people with the clone tool? The sky was mostly grey and washed out, but it does look maybe a bit too dramatic in my shot, not sure if its a good or a bad thing though.