Name: Mary Lake Stevens, WA (Zone 8a) Near Seattle
I just took a 90 minute free class at the Apple Store, to learn to use the IPhone for photography. It was a lot of fun. I think it is amazing what can be done with a cellphone. It did make me want to get the new IPhone8 (I am 2 models behind the times) because it can blur out the background. Of course they had one to show me. But here are the photos I took with my cellphone. They were then minimally processed and cropped in my MacBook computer with the canned pre-installed software. I would invite you to share your artistic photos in this thread.
This is my instructor, working on a great angle: