Slow progression?

So Halloween was officially a year since I got my first dslr. So I went back and checked out my first photos,(The ones I still have) to see if I have any progression in my skills.

Notice on the left my keen awareness of
1) My own shadow
2) Having the subject face the sun thus causing that squint
3) the background
4) The position of the pole thus causing a freak of a shadow (pole coming out of the head for the slow people out there)

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nice progression, Im afraid to post my first ones! LOL

TSEE wrote in post #4238913
nice progression, Im afraid to post my first ones! LOL

c'mon...do it...DO IT!...DO IT

Nice, I also looked at your flikr account...some great urban shots there....I love them

mdrtoys wrote in post #4238934
Nice, I also looked at your flikr account...some great urban shots there....I love them

thank you.

How funny..I just did that about a week ago, thinking wow

You have definitely come a long way...I love that 2nd picture, and that's great progress for 1 year...not slow at all !!

doesn't look slow to me; you learned a lot in a year.

another aspect is my post processing. I may post some improvements.

What improvement! i can't wait till my one year mark comes around...