Five Photos from this month

I think "Look at paw" is the best one here. Great composition with the eyes top/right. Good focus on the eyes and excellent use of DOF. There's dead space under the paw that could be cropped and wouldn't affect the overall composition.

The ones of the cat are definitely the best.

"CN88" bothers me because there is so much of the white, blown out sky in it.

"Door Drops to Track" has potiental but it's crooked and the fact that there's nothing under the door doesn't really jump out at you. With a shot like this, you want the persepective to really make the weirdness of the door pop out so it immediately grabs peoples attention. I didn't even realize there was something strange about it until after a few seconds of staring at it and I was only staring at it because I was looking to see just how crooked it was. Shooting it straight-on flatten it out, it might have been better to shot it more at an angle so people can see there's nothing under the door when you step out.

"Street Grate" just doesn't seem to have a subject. Is it the car? The people? The buildings? Whatever it is, it's too dark and you can't see enough of it.

The Cat photos... the first one has nice lighting but I don't find a yawning cat very interesting personally. The second one however is very nice. It's sharp, it has good lighting, good composition, and a great expression. I'm not too big on the title though.

How do I fix images from being blown out? I haven't had the time to learn about it and they don't teach digital very well at my school.

Well the best thing is to use raw files(so you can fix the exposure and WB), also you can also underexposure the shot.