The scarey "M" word!

Well today I took my first steps into the world of manual photography and thoroughly enjoyed myself twiddling all the buttons and watching the changes in histograms. I began to figure out what was going to work and what wasn't, I found it helpful to work in reverse for some reason?? ie I would aim to change the settings so that the picture would be completely overexposed / underexposed. The area I think Im going to have to look at further is the length of the shutter speed, Im really rubbish at maths and keep getting confused to whats a  long exposure and whats a really short exposure. 

Anyway, here are the pictures I took today, I have posted the good , the bad and the ugly ones to help re-inforce things for me.

This picture is my favourite of the day, nature is such a wonderful thing!

How amazing are the colours in these flowers!I think I'd like to have my entire house painted in that shade! LOL 

Another picture that had me lying at very strange angles to try to capture it, Im not sure what plant this is but the flowers are really tiny, so I was quite pleased with the end result

How cute is this Robin! at first I thought it was a fake one as it didn't move an inch when I zoomed in with my camera. Don't know what's happening to my text, its gone blue and is underlined???

A simple blossom flower, but oh so pretty

I like the light shining off the droplet in this picture, good job too because I nearly poked my eye out getting this picture. LOL