Can I get feedback and/or ideas for moving forward with my photography?

I'm twenty-nine and an amateur photographer. I started taking pictures two years ago with my iPhone camera, then moved "up" to a Sony DSC-S85. I take a lot of self-portraits and I also use Photoshop. Taking pictures has become a passion or an obsession, and I do it almost every day. I would love to have feedback on my work as it appears on my wordpress blog, but also ideas on how to move forward. What do I do next? Or is there even a "next"? Any thoughts will be appreciated. Here is my blog's URL:
http://chasingmeaning.wordpress.com

I see promise. I would work with photoshop a little more to really touch up some of these. There are a lot that seem just plain strange to me, and a lot more that seem like good reference pictures for creating something else using photoshop. But I think I'm getting your style. I love Growing out of it. If you cleaned it up with photoshop i could see it on a magazine or something.

Since you are amateur i won't bash for no depth of field.

My favorites are… Well i only got through 5 pages.
Growing out of it
Street light
and touch…

Chasing meaning huh. Look, not to be harsh, but instead of chasing meaning, how about chasing a good composition. Ascending road is the closest shot you have to a conventional image. It has a decent leading line that draws us into the image, but the lush green foliage is not all that interesting for where the road leads our eyes to gaze.

Very interesting if not a little minimalistic at times. The best way to move forward is to establish a differential. Really embrace what you need to or want to change and or look at other people's work and see what you want to explore. You might like Joel Meyerowitz and Andreas Feinginger as inspiration. Go to the library and just start grabbing random photography books and see what you like. Poke around and find "oh, this is XY by XY in the ZY movement" and get up, and search for a book on just that.

P.S., if anyone tells you that you need a specific camera or more editing programs, screw them. Screw them hard.

I like that you have a different way of seeing things. Some of the ways you use light is quite novel. The self portraits are quite interesting and show signs of a pretty creative imagination.

At some point you might want to change your colour palette a bit; that lo-fi, washed out look is fine to a degree, but I wouldn't want to get pigeonholed into it. It works for certain shots, but with the flowers it just looks faded. Flowers are meant to look colourful and bright.

If I were you, I would start seriously studying the nuts and bolts of photography as well as the artistic side. They go hand in hand. The more technical stuff you learn, the more you can apply it to your shots. With some technical sense, I think you could get some really quite good pictures.

Also, look at the work of other photographers. You may not like their style, but usually something will rub off on you on a conscious or subconscious level and this will expand your style and give you more ideas.

I'm not so impressed with your work. WIth that said, I would say that you should look at other photos that you like and try and mirror that. I promise you that your own style will emerge and you'll find others looking at your work in order to develop themselves. The worse thing you could do would be to put your camera down. If you like, visit my work at