One example of playing with focus.

I was using the Landscape setting, I use this for almost all outside photography. I feel I am acting too big for my britches by saying "all outside photography" so I will say, I use the Landscape setting when I take pictures outside. That sounds better.
Here I took a picture of the same thing, but one time I let the camera focus on the drain thing and the other time I let it focus on the trees beyond. I love doing that.