I don't know any other professional photographers so my feedback has come from lovely yet biased friends and family.  I'm learning a lot from MS rejections and reading critiques of others, figured it's time to grow a spine and ask for opinions on mine 

I'd appreciate any thoughts on my work, areas in need of improvement etc.  Thanks!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/petathames/
http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=1294957

Thanks!  The last 2.5 years, I've been reading and practising a lot to try and get the hang of technical aspects of photography beyond framing and capturing directly what's in front of me, it helps to hear it's paying off.

I see what you mean about stock photography, it's something I've come to learn about recently as I understand more about the stock world (through this forum and others like it), and I definitely don't have the knack of thinking like that.  It clearly shows that I haven't yet made the choice to deliberately try and only focus on stock photography, although I've had a go at some very recently which aren't online yet.  I think I need to practise more of that and see if I can do it, and more importantly, enjoy it, then choose.  I hoping my technique and eye is up to scratch though, those inspectors are demanding taskmasters!

I see what you mean, but, phew.  If that's the effort needed for stock photography then I'm not cut out for it.  I do like playing a bit with post-processing but not to that extent.  I think I can remove the the bushes easily enough and I'll do that, thanks for highlighting it for me, but while I can see the concept with the gator and the woman with the poodle, my photoshop skills aren't up that level of work (and not least because I don't own photoshop!).

Ironically, this very photo sold overnight.  It must have known we were talking about it and wanted to prove itself worthy!