These are beautiful, Kirk! The drydock one really struck me too with the lack of stars. It helps draw the attention to the focus and at the same time gives the illusion that the sun is very bright.
You irritate me, sir!
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I need to get off my butt and try doing this stuff sometime, there's been so much inspiration showing up on this forum recently, your renders included. ;)