Maybe it's just me, but I feel bad when I see an otherwise nice photo with palm trees, power poles, flag poles, or whatever, growing out of the vehicle.
Post number three is a perfect example, I think. The first photo is completely ruined by the sign post and building, and the second one is great, I think.
Again, it may just be me, but after decades of shooting vehicle for a living I just can't see past those things.
And I do understand that you only see what you want to see in a photo, but for some of the rest of us that clutter in the background does matter.
Then again, following that criterion it becomes more of a photo contest than a vehicle contest.