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Hi @grace-galdamez! Welcome! I enjoy photographing animals too.
I love how you captured your cat looking straight at you! One thing that would make the image even more powerful would be to focus on the eyes. Right now the nose is really sharp, but eyes are less sharp. Whenever I photograph animals, I always try to make the eyes super sharp, since that is where viewers will look first. If you are using a really small aperture, then focusing on both eyes could be tricky. You could either close down your aperture a bit to get both eyes in focus, or try a different angle and focus on the eye closest to you!
For your second image, I like the concept of focusing on the flowers with the flamingos in the background. I love the pretty blue flowers in the foreground! Personally, I think that the image would be even better if you focused more on one subject. When I look at your image, I am not sure if it is about the flowers or the birds. Since the flamingoes are brighter than the flowers, my eye first goes to the flamingos, not the flower. In other words, if you really focused on the flower, and blurred the flamingos more, or if you focused on the flamingos, and blurred out the flowers and leaves more, the image would be more clear.
Note: I am not sure what camera/lens you are using. If you can’t change the aperture to blur out the background, then I would suggest either blurring it out later with something like Photoshop, or changing positions to get a solid background (if you can).
-Anastasia