Aaron,

I think you will get there soon. Looks good for early work with LF.

Displaying these bigger prints may find you working a lot more to get them looking good on screen than previously you've experienced.

Part of the printing 'magic' is often playing with dodging and burning as there is often overlap which with smaller contact prints is not as apparent.

Are you filtering or 'polarizing' the light source for making contact prints? Getting the light source to evenly illuminate the larger negatives can be an additional challenge. A diffuser (filter) or polarizer (really a screen) on a lamp fixture (for your print box) becomes necessary with wide range such as white and black extremes of snow and water!

These were really tough subjects you chose to photograph to 'begin' with for any film, let alone LF.

You did pretty good for a first outing under these circumstances!

What are you using for a tripod/stand? Wood, metal, composite . . .?

Also curious about exposure values, particularly for the bridge. There is nicely retained detail in the drift at the end of footbridge.