Hey man, sorry, im nit a bit of a hurry so cant reply to that properly - but awesome, thats fanatstic! before i had my camera i always used to use crappy ones too, praticing with a bad camera for plain composition is always good, but i think your images, composition and ideas for photos are great. You seem to have 'that eye' for photos which is a great skill to have.Hey thanks, am I new to photography well yes and no. I got my GF1 a few months back so that is my first serious digital camera (so something of good image quality), I only in the last couple weeks thought of trying to photograph plants as I too sometimes find them boring but I thought it as a challenge.
I've always had an interest in photography and maybe 5 years ago during school in activities week I did photography and used my parents SLR and got to actually develop the film I took. It was a lot of fun. After that and with camera phones being popular I've alway taken photos but alway tried to think of actual composition and make it interesting, even though the quality might be poor. I then received a canon EOS SLR which I practiced with.
If you look back at some of my deviantart uploads (link in sig) and go to the early ones it'll say what was used to capture the image I aways tried to get worth while shots in terms of subject and composition regardless of image quality.
This made me really think about what I want to do and so I got my GF1 and have tried to make it a real hobby with the hope one day I could make money with my images (or even just please people which is more important). I know I have a long was to go but in the last year I have really looked at rules and learned techniques to practice. I am very technical minded and so learning the function of how cameras work and how to use aperture, shutter speed etc has been fairly easy, though this forum helps when I'm stuck getting my head round things. But hopefully you can see a steady progression in my images of me getting better. I'm studying Psychology at Uni but maybe through summer I could do a summer course as more peoples perspectives really help.
Good Luck man, everyone gets better
I've have my 1000d (rebel xs) for one year now, getting a 550d (t2i) exactly one year later (my birthday) and i havent got alot better - mainly down to lack of time to shoot. I've got alot better with the theory of photography but practice makes perfect. Just keep taking photos and keep posting them here - especially in the photo of the day thread