Tweaking my final pieces

So I had a tutorial with Pete last week who seemed pleased with my images overall. He just gave me some ideas of how to tweak some of them.

This is a new image I have created in the last week. One of my original images I started was of an albatross flying with World War II planes inside the silhouette to symbolise both the battle that took place on the Islands and that bird strike is a threat to the birds. Pete said that I should just look at one subject, and not include anything about the war. So the way I decided to do this was to create albatrosses flying within a silhouette of a plane, and one the birds got to the engines they would disappear and feathers would appear instead to symbolise bird strike. 

This was the first bird I created. I haven't change it too much. I just created my own plastic images out of felt and included a lot more in the stomaches of the birds to make it look more threatening to them and create more of an impact. I have also changed the colour of the font, as it didn't look quite right in black. 

Pete liked how chaotic the original version of this was, but we agreed it didn't make much sense and needed tweaking. The background is of the island beaches littered with plastic. I have also included a few collaged images of fishing buoys and a few young and adult birds to show the scenery of the islands. I then wanted to show part of the skeleton of the bird with lots of chaotic plastic where the stomach would be. 

This image has also only been changed slightly. The skyline and buildings of Hawaii (Honolulu) are still shown along the feet of the albatross. I have rearranged the feathers around the neck to symbolise where the throat of the bird would be, and shown a few bottles and other pieces of plastic going down the birds neck. I have also shown a map of Hawaii and where Midway Atoll is, as well as where the North Pacific Garbage Patch is. I have shown the garbage patch by using lots of images of plastic again, as well as using prints of the plastic, which could also represent our footprints and the impact that we have on the planet. However, this image still isn't looking perfect to me, but I need a tutorial to help me put my finger on what isn't quite right.