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These are pictures that i took on my phone while in the park this weekend.
they are nice looking, but i think that by the time this class is over it the RAW images devloped properly will be better.

This one was taken on campus a few weeks ago

Using the 5 rules

Sun rise on a duck blind
This is what makes me enjoy the unsuccessful days spend hunting.

 

The sun rises are simply insane with cold and warm colors

 

 

I wish i had a ladder so i could have gotten up another foot or to just to get the log and its reflection surrounded by the reflection of the sky. I also tried to make the water and sky smooth and plastic like during editing.this makes the reflection of the log stand out.

 The colors change every time I look east. Adjusting the aperture and shutter speed became a constant struggle.
 

 This was an experiment I tried using artificial light. In the first picture I let the camera do the adjusting and I also tried to manipulate the exposure compensation to show the green in the leaves. Then I remembered that I had a head lamp. I held it in my left hand and took the same picture again one handed. I think i left my exposure compensation on at +.07

If you have a good monitor, you can see a small cobweb on the stick in focus. I just thought it looked cool. I didn't know that the cobweb came through until I zoomed in on the LCD screen to look at the focus of the stick.

This image hasn't been edited at all, but man, i wish i would have done a time laps for the hour or so that the light was awesome.

These pics were taken by me and are unaltered.

This image was taken on my LG smartphone two years ago. My family went camping out in Paradise Valley just outside of Livingston. It was late spring with an small evening rain storm rolling in and we were out and about and it just looked cool.

This next image was taken while fishing in California. It was late summer and I went on an  evening trip out of Dana Point. The fishing was decent but the sunset was awesome. This pic was taken with an Android phone.

The last photo is taken at an undisclosed location somewhere in the continental US. In other words, I forgot where I took this picture. It is just a cool photo.

This weekend one of my best friends was evacuated because of The Valley Fire in California. I just wanted to post up a link to a photo gallery. But while reviewing the pictures and all the destruction, I came to realize that even when fire is destructive it is still amazing and creates a dramatic scene that can affect more than the emotion of sadness or fear. What do you feel? For me, I ran through all of them. Some of the foundations belong to people I grew up with and some homes that were saved, sharing the same fence line, in the same image. The most powerful picture is the image of the "Welcome to Middletown" sign on fire at night.

I have gone out a few times in the last week or two and I have been playing with focal points and lighting. the first photo is of the Yellowstone River. I was out fishing and had a cool sunrise to the east and just wanted to capture the light on the trees while leaving depth down the river channel with out showing a ton of reflective water.

This pic was taken later in the day while birding at Norm's Island. The few leaves on this branch were hanging abnormally lower than all other branches and the light just looked cool. I was only about 1' away from the branch when I took this. This made my background out of focus and darker than when you looked at it with the naked eye. This made the subject easier to focus on.

When I was taking this picture I was having a hard time focusing on the subject through the viewfinder and on the LCD screen. I am hopping you do to. (sorry I had to) I like the way this turned out because the grasshopper and the plant are in focus and have a good angle of light on them.