river+birch+tree-oyerl

I used a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P7/P4 camera. My family has had this camera awhile and I have used it, but in a very basic way. When I went to take these pictures, I looked at the manual and saw there was a "daylight" setting which seemed appropriate for the time, and so used it. I took this picture from our deck (thus the feeling of being a bit higher than ground level) and as it appears from the back of our house.

This view shows the view looking straight on to the interesting W-shaped trunk of the tree. The picture may be more interesting if I had blurred the background...that learning will come at a later time (and I don't even know if the camera has the capability!). The river birch tree has interesting peeling bark as shown on this picture. I did use the zoom feature to zoom in on one area of the bark.



This view is looking down in the center of the trunk. I don't know that this picture turned out having such an interesting view as I thought it might!

I used the zoom feature to get a close look at the leaves of the tree. At first I thought the foreground was blurred, but actually it came out better than I thought it might.