Because it's a more general landscape technique question, I've moved it over to, well, Landscape Techniques.
IMHO, I think that part of getting good foregrounds to sunrise / sunset shots is getting closer. Obviously that's not going to work in this case because they're trees so if you get closer they'll obscure the sunset. I also like interesting shapes in the foreground if they're going to be silhouetted.
In this case, I feel that the trees along the bottom are competing with the nicely lit buildings. I actually feel that the bottom shot would've worked better without the trees but from lower so you still get the water and the sky. That's just my 2 cents though.
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