ok i live in a city of 70,000+ people, and i live in what is considered the valley

and today i decided to take some pics of stuff across the street from my house
and i took these standing on the road

across the street 1


across the street 2


across the street 3


across the street 4


these were taken on a kinda crappy camera so sorry for blur and what not

First picture has a nice composition! The others are not so attractive...
I don't kow what kind of settings you can change of our camera, but a slower speed would have given you a better aperture and more range for your focus..
Or if you can play with the aperture, try F:8 or higher so you havea bigger dept of field...

so this is where u live ?

yep, near the badlands

across the street(fixed)
i fixed the image and did some relighting on it