Just realized I didn’t respond here:
You’re right about the second sunrise shot…I was moving the camera around for the correct sunburst exposure and didn’t notice the…ahem…metal fence in front of me.
Actually, I had figured out that was a fence, but I found the trees in the foreground and the trees in the background (above the fence) to blend together as a whole to a certain degree, so that’s more what I was talking about in my original comment.