Sue Pics and John Pics

I met with the boys for coffee yesterday. The orange tree that I saw from the window called to me, so I grabbed a photo upon leaving. Notice that the other trees are still green or yellowing slightly. Meanwhile, many trees are bare, but not in this scene.

After I got home, Sue and I went for a walk downtown where I dropped into I'll FixIt to have  a screen protector placed on my new phone. At just over $30 with tax, I think it's a good investment, and if I crack it they will replace it gratis. 

Speaking of downtown, She has completed her set of seasonal photos from the bridge. Earlier, I showed the boys this collage on my phone, and they liked it. One of them thought we should print it. 

For next year's seasonal sequence, Sue is thinking that she might shoot from the other side of the bridge and focus on the church that I have shown you a few times recently. I am sure she will use a composition that will be different than those in this current collage of hers. I think this diptych is really good with the black background and orange borders.

What I was interested in trying yesterday was a faux long exposure using Live View on the phone. It worked as I wished by smoothing out the ripples in the water. You can see the ripples in the normal, subsequent image although I was concentrating on the sky then. 

I took one more photo from the same spot to capture the clouds that don't appear in the previous photo. I just tilted the camera up.

I am finding phone photography different, especially on the new phone, but learning new things at 78 is likely a good thing. Or at least trying to learn.