Well, you might have known I'd be contrary. I like the second shot better. Something about that poor scrawny, misshapen tree barely coming to life again ... set against what basically looks like a tenement -- dingy, cramped, utilitarian and charmless. No style. No grace. No sense of anything except warehousing humans. The whole photo is a picture of anxiety and struggle ... and barely contained despair. The lives of the people inside that building just trying to make it. And the tree -- trying the same. I just want to hug it for making such a valiant attempt.