Sticking with what I know best

It seems like so long since I have taken any landscape photos and I have to admit it is nice to get back to it. I have been wanting to take this shot all winter, since the trees turned yellow, but I could never get the timing right. The weather has been lousy here (typical Warrnambool weather, wet and windy), but Saturday was just glorious - warm and sunny. This is the Merri River (I take so many photos of this river) just on the outskirts of town. The yellow trees are Poplars (I think) and the green ones on the river bank are Willows. In the second photo there is a shadow from a light pole on the bridge down the bottom of the photo, kinda in the middle. Do you think it is distracting? I cloned it out of the top one, should I clone it out of the second one also?

Thanks for the comments on my last post. I'm loving the new lens, it certainly is a learning curve though. I'll post some more photos when I get some good ones. Shane is really into bug photos so I think he will use the macro more than I do.