Photo Challenge #1 | Empty

I'm trying something new. I like photography of still objects, nature, landscapes, food, and occasionally people. I really do want to improve my manual photography skills. This is sort of like a project for me. I found this challenge on this website. Basically, a prompt is given for each day of the year, and we are supposed to use our creativity to interpret what the prompt is and find something that corresponds to it. Since I'm not moving around much/doing lots of different things, I am quite limited in what I can take. So I know I won't be able to have a photo everyday of the year (although I'd very much love to have a photo everyday), but I thought it would be a fun challenge and project to do for the rest of the year.

But here's what I managed to capture for today's prompt.

Prompt: EMPTY

 

 

This was my favourite of the two that I took today.

Delicious

 

But here's the other one. I liked the effect of being able to take a subject up close and have the background blurred off a bit (is there a technical name for it??), but after I took it I realised that this restaurant's glass was really dirty and it didn't really give the photo a nice look. But I still kept it anyway. 

Anyway, if you know a thing or two about manual photography and all the different settings of the camera, I would love to hear your feedback and learn a thing or two about how I can improve my photography. As I'm really an amateur at this, I don't really know how to ask for any specific feedback, so any feedback is good! But please be kind :) 

Being the philosophical me, I have to leave this question. After all, there's a reason why I've named my blog as such! ;) These are empty, but my stomach was full. When something's empty, something else is full. 

What's empty and what's full in your life?