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nesgranout of all those only these two worked but then I realised I could just browse through the albums
My thoughts on those two would be that they are both a nice but lacks a bit of wow those are great. Other shots in the albums I think are better. Both look decently sharp, good use of the depth of field but I would probably have turned the sitting girl around (unless she’d be squinting into the sun). Was the pretty warm colour balance intentional. I’m not sure what the 2014 represents but she probably knows. Did you try a few different angles on both of those? I would have been interested to see what the composition would have been if you took a step to the right on the guy by the fence and a step or two to the left on the other.
Looking through the rest of the shots I notice that the colour temperature is warmer on some shots and colder on others which makes it look a little odd. The third photo in the album with the guy is quite out of focus and in the last he is quite dark against the bright sky which isn’t great. Guessing from the catch lights in the second I’m guessing you were using a flash so you should probably have given the other shot a little fill.
In the album with the sitting girl I really liked the first shot of the horses on the field, shame the rear horse had its tail chopped off. I also really like the black and white shot of her with the glove, it just works really well though having her eyes a little sharper would have been nice. In general though, get rid of any blurry shots (there’s a couple in the album) and avoid chopping peoples’ feet off (when she is sitting on the bench) and the average will improve quite a bit
Keep working with the local photographer though and you’ll have a great future I think