Well, here are more interpretation of two of the images. My default preset usually gives me a pretty flat starting point from where I increase things to fit whatever my intention is. My background is analog photography and I like my images to be more moderate.
I tried NOT to recover the sky in this image but to bring up the blinding light of the sky:
R0000296.DNG.dop (11.3 KB)
This one works for me too:
R0000353.DNG.dop (11.6 KB)