How's my first ever blog look?

beautiful!

adsense and seo fails !

I like the header graphic, I’m not so keen on the black background though.

1) I think the adsense at the bottom of the site should be there as the color doesn’t match the background and it is aligned to the left
2) I think you need a theme with a wider content area because the images you uploaded is too wide, hence the right side of the images are cropped.