Monkeying Around w/ Metering & Shutter Speed

I'm in the middle of reading Bryan Peterson's Understanding Exposure, and just got through the part about shutter speed. I was also really impressed with a photo that Ron Richardson took of the sky over the lake the other afternoon.

So with yesterday afternoon having been fairly windy and having some funky stuff going on with the clouds, I thought it'd be fun to see what I could do with faster shutter speeds and some unusual metering. I ended up with a lot of throwaways, and even some of the ones I like the best have a faint lens flare, but it was a fun exercise anyway.