Digital Photography Challenge - Create Depth & Connect the Dots

This week my son and I went to the Botanical Gardens to get exercise and so I could take photos for our photography challenge, but we mostly ended up playing Pokemon Go! Play Pokemon Go!? Then you have to visit the State Botanical Garden of Georgia - so many stops and the gym's not bad either. ;)

We are still working on the Team Tech Digital Photography Challenge - you can see the whole challenge here - and this week I tried to focus on two of Josh Cripp's tips, create depth and connect the dots.

I managed to get a few shots between catching Pokemon and visiting stops. Creating depth means to get something very close in the foreground while getting a distant background that makes the viewer feel like they can step into the image. This is a more advanced skill, I think, so it was pretty difficult for me.

Here are a couple of my better tries:


And my worse:



I had a hard time getting the subject properly in the foreground. I'll work on it more.

Connecting the dots for me means using the lines that occur naturally in the frame to lead the viewer's eye around the image.

As for the connecting the dots, here's what I got:
More successful

Less successful:


This is one where the contrast is nice, but the composition is lacking.

Only one more blog about digital photography before we move on to the next technology challenge - Lighting is Everythinger! We'll see what I can get.