Tom...
It's not about the size (well, in most matters that is
). What i don't get is your idea about the wrong size of crop that i use, so explain please. you crop, or you don't crop, that's about it. what i think you mean to say is the resize settings, that is possible, but i still haven't figured that out...
To be honest though (but of course that is very personal), yours looks a little bit to much of artificial, the naturality is gone somehow. And again, why do you always lock up a plane like that. it's frame filling, makes it allmost claustrofobic. IMHO the row of trees makes a little bit more interesting, and you can see the exhaust haze coming out, which gives it a bit extra. I know mine's a lot smaller and yours is much bigger, but it's allways the same frame that we get to see, makes it a little bit boring now and then....that's why i tried something else.