Early Sprouters, what do you think (newbie)

I noticed a little color in the flower beds of our new home and so I whipped out the camera and started snapping. Keeping in mind that I'm new at this, what do you think? Any advice?
Thanks

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It's kind of sad I had to scale down from 1.2 MB to 66 KB, oh well. heheh

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The first two shots are great!
#1 seems to be properly focused, good exposure, although it could be lightened a bit. The color balance seems to be OK. Composition is OK but could be improved upon.
I would crop out some of the out-of-focus foreground. By playing around a bit with the vantage point and perspective, you could have arranged for the composition to be a bit more interesting and traditional . For example, make the verticals vertical and the horizontal lines horizontal. Arrange for lines to cross at the magic 1/3 points(Divide your space into 9 equal sized rectangles and take advantage of those 4 points where lines cross).

In #2 you can throw out the rules of thirds and concentrate on what should and shouldn't be in the frame. Things that are only half in and half out can be problems. They can contribute by framing the main subject or they can be a distraction. Think about it yourself! Usually it takes a lot of jockeying around to make your subject stand out, keep it isolated from distractions and try to get some compositional tricks in as well.
#2 also has good exposure and color balance.

That last one, #3 - throw it out!

Here are my suggestions for sizing images for posting in Critique Corner:
Size your image to not larger than 800 pixels in either direction (that's the guideline max.).
In Photoshop use Image->Image Size and enable Resampling (this will downsample your larger image to the new smaller size by throwing away some of the information, so save this smaller version under a different name from your original or you may lose your original).

Do not be confused by the dimensions in inches or the DPI value - those are irrelevant. The size of the image on a monitor depends only on the screen resolution of that monitor and the number of pixels in your image. For example, most monitors are set for screen resolution of 70 to 100 pixels per inch. That means that an 800 pixel image dimension will actually be from 8" to 11" on the monitor.

In order to stay under the 100kB limit on file size, use JPG compression quality low enough to get under 100kB by watching the file size change as you adjust the quality slider. It may be a little in error, so stay under 90 kB to be safe.

If the file size limit poses problems, you may want to host on another site and place a link to the image hosted elsewhere, but the 800 pixel maximum still applies.

A related issue is the EXIF data. In order to be sure that your EXIF data is available for the critique, do NOT use File->Save for Web. That process removes the EXIF data from the file. Following my suggestions above preserve the EXIF data in the file.

The buildings and fences in all the shots just really lose it for me. Tough to figure out what the subject is in any of the shots. If the subject is the flower, then get in close and get rid of any distractions in the background.

For example, you would not know that these flowers are less than 1 foot away from the foundation of my house: