To create my photos on nature, I had to go out and look for the most colourful and liveliest of plants, as I wanted to make my pictures look full of life; not something dull and uninteresting. It took me a while to get those pictures since I didn't want to settle for something mediocre, I thought that since I was already in the mindset and doing my thing; I might as well do it well.
I looked all around the the local parks and investigated every patch of grass to try and get good pictures.
http://naturebygreen.com/wp-content/uploads/g3p1-184x184.jpg - This is a picture from an urban nature photographer called Iain Green, he's been doing nature photography since he was 8 years old, and I believe I can compare my photographs to the work he's done. I might not be as good as him currently, but if I kept digging into photography a lot more, I definitely think I could reach his level of skill.
http://www.urbannaturemedia.com/web09/spring.2011.03.html This is a magazine called the "Urban Nature Magazine", the link above shows an example of the work they show in their issues, and I truly believe my work is comparable to that. The angles, the depth, the colour, the same things can be found in my photographs. I am 99% sure I would have my images featured on their site if I were to simply contact them.
The reason I think so is because I used all my knowledge in photography and spread it out over all of my pictures. I used rule of third, shallow depth of field and framing - as well as carefully setting up the lighting to make the pictures stand out; which if done right, can create beautiful photographs.
Overall, I'm really happy with all of my pictures, they all reach my standard and I believe they have what it takes to appear in a nature photography magazine. I also enjoyed walking around looking for the right sights to snap photos off and then line them up in the most fitting angle. I set myself a challenge to take pictures of beautiful, colourful nature, with a lot of concentration on a single object with a perfect angle, and I believe I took the exact images I imagined and intended to take. The picture match my imagination perfectly and I don't think I would've exchanged any of my pictures for anything else.
