Lara,

Not bad at all. I'd have to say all four of these shots are real good starting points. I only have time to glance at them a bit, but I'll post more comments soon...

BTW, I have to agree with Bobby about posting these individually, not because you attached four pics to one post, but more importantly because they are all very different. If you're posting a small series of similar shots, it's no problem, but yes, critiquing parts of four different style images in the same thread can get confusing.

BTW2, this may also be a bit of a trap you're falling into. The quickest way to learn to improve your shooting is to pick a single type of image and be very repetative. The quickest way to get very frustrated is to water yourself down by shooting a lot of different things, then trying to figure out how to improve all of them at once...

-Steve