They are all terrible. Trash can? Bus stop? Rock salt? If you can't grow facial hair, please don't try.
:lmao: As hard as it's gonna be to follow THAT kind of "educated" well-thought-out response, I think I'll give it a go:
Many of these are not subjects that grab my attention--specifically, I just see nothing in the first picture, the picture of the bus stop shelter or the last picture to hold my interest at all.
The first one just looks like a weed growing up a wall, and there is nothing in the weed or the wall that grabs my interest. Same thing for the bus shelter--perhaps if there was a person there, or an interesting poster or something that catches the viewer's attention. The last one--well, I just don't personally have any interest in seeing up someone's nostrils. But that could just be me. :lmao: I don't like eyeball close-ups either--in fact, I actually cannot stand to look at them--but they seem to be quite a popular subject, so who knows, maybe nostrils are too.
Start looking at other photos and ask yourself what you like or don't like about them. Just look through threads here, or surf the internet, or skim through a book. When a photo grabs your attention, ask yourself WHAT you like about it. Does it amuse you? Excite you? Calm you? Anger you? Intrigue you? Chances are, there is some emotional response to it, when you like a photo. Then look more closely at some that DON'T hold your attention--ask yourself why they don't interest you. Subject matter? Lighting? Chances are, they evoke no emotion at all in you.
As pgriz pointed out in that "information overload" of a post (I mean there were three whole paragraphs there!! And big words, like "conception" and "iconic", who could possibly take all that in?!?! </end sarcasm>), conception is very important. YOU may have a "vision" for your photo, and YOU may even have an emotional response to your photo--but a "successful" photo will relay that vision to others as well.
My advice? Even though you want to be "good at everything" PICK something to focus on. Maybe just work on composition--read about it, study what makes a well-composed photo, then practice it. Something like "Light Science and Magic" or "Understanding Exposure" might be good for you because they have things for you to try and experiment with.
You seem to have done reasonably well with the lighting and exposure on most of these--the composition in many of them could be stronger.
A few of them have some great abstract potential--that stained glass one, the rock salt on the pavement, and the two in the middle of the second row. The photo of the burn barrel intrigued me--not much resolution to work with in the uploaded file, and I spent all of about 30 seconds on it, but as an example of what I mean, I took that one and started playing with crops of it to find an interesting abstract--the outside left edge of the barrel, and the ashes poking out of the hole were a little too overexposed to accomplish what I really envision here, but this could make for a cool abstract, and if *I* had a burn barrel, I'd be revisiting this!
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