What's left of the onion. Metadata: 52 mm; ISO 200; 1/125s; f/5.6; rear flash with black cloth backdrop.
Even though giving me a look of pure boredom here, Annie's the best part of my everyday environment - and she actually stayed still for this. Metadata: 46 mm; ISO 200; 1/800s; f/8; -0.3EV
And just for fun, something from the air show - and no I didn't rotate it. The Lieutenant did this all by himself! I did, however, crop it and enlarge it for effect. Metadata: 300mm;
ISO 250; 1/320s; f/16
I took this a couple years ago at a lavender farm near Sequim. In reviewing - and I'm not done yet - my pattern seems to be catching something that catches my eye, like this bicycle leaning against the fence with the flowers behind and trees beyond. This was taken with a much different camera than I have now, and with no understanding of what I was doing. If I were taking it again I wouldn't center the bicycle, would want to try for an angle where the white grips of the handlebars aren't lost in the white blooms, and if I moved to get the sign on the left I might be able to angle it so the quaint little shop comes into view on the right - and still not lose the bicycle.
The onion form is very Georgia O'Keeffe-ish! Beautiful curved lines emphasized by varying degrees of shadow values. I could see an entire series of veggies, printed large adorning your kitchen! One thing I have learned in playing with my flashes is 'separating' the object from the background using light. It enables the object to appear more 3-dimensional. You could try adding some light in behind the onion with a flashlight and see what happens.Your dog has REALLY COOL eye colors! I like the wide view, but to show that interesting feature, I would like to see a closeup portrait of her face, focused on her eyes and waiting for an unusual expression. Great sharp capture of the FA/18, with the afterburners! WISH the sky had more variation of grey values so it didn't look so flat. This is the time to find those cloud images I always suggest people photograph, so Photoshop can come to the rescue! Spot on with your 'self-critique' of the bike/garden shot.
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