Thanks for your thoughts, I'm glad you like the photo! I've got a belly full of coffee and am feeling loquacious but I feel like I should slow down and write a full article to help best answer your questions... but in the meantime, here I'll focus on the most important. Cameraphones are awesome for photography! My photo with the cloud was taken with a samsung s5 and the newer tech (like with the iphones) is better than even my very average dslr.
The coolest thing about using your phone is that it's accessible. I wouldn't have been free to run and get my big camera, or even carry it around while at work, so the picture with the clouds and the tiny flag only exists because I had a camera in my pocket at the time.
The "rule of 7th" is not thing, the only time i've ever heard it used in a photography class was when I was teaching it.
What it refers to is, in the context of the cloud photo, a loose vertical division of invisible lines dividing the composition into seven parts. It's a play on the idea of the rule of thirds, which divides the frame into three parts. In both cases, and this is where things get wild, placement of shapes along those lines usually lines up with the Fibonacci spiral, also known as the golden ratio, defined as:
"...a powerful composition tool for centuries. It is a design principle based on the ratio of 1 to 1.618. "
https://www.apogeephoto.com/how-to-use-the-golden-ratio-to-improve-your-photography/
The biggest difference between something like "the rule of thirds" (or "sevenths") and the Fibonnaci spiral, or golden ratio, is that the rule of thirds is about *placement* of visual elements within the frame and when properly composed to match, the Fibonnaci spiral overlaid would instead often describes the movement of the viewers eye.
These are hard concepts to talk about without example images but you can see them in the article mentioned above, which i'll link to here again: https://www.apogeephoto.com/how-to-use-the-golden-ratio-to-improve-your-photography/
I'll write something up that dives deeper into this, but in the meantime if you have any questions feel free to let 'em fly and i'll do my best to answer them.
(thanks!)
