I took all of these shots and the following post shots using my little point-and-shoot camera as it had a better macro facility than my DSLR.
All these shots were taken within 100m of my house.
We are newbies experimenting with photography. We choose a theme and shoot that theme for a couple of weeks or so. Originally our rule was that we could not manipulate our photos using software, apart from cropping and altering the orientation and using any in-camera effects that our cameras will allow. However, now we are experimenting with Photoshop also.