landing shortcode and album shortcode

I have had only trouble with this plugin since i installed it. It seems like if i could get it to work it would be perfect. the shortcode [wppa type="landing"][/wppa] does not work. I just get a blank page. Also the same for the album shortcode slideonly shortcode and slideonlyf shortcode. I just want the page to show the photos. all i can get is albums to show. which works because users can then click the album and look at the photos that way. but noting i have tried works.

with the landing shortcode debug spits out:

[WPPA+ dbg msg: Doit is on]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Entering wppa_albums]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Lang=en, Locale=en_US, Ajax=]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: $wppa_session = a:5:{s:4:"page";i:157;s:4:"ajax";i:1;s:2:"id";s:3:"139";s:7:"rootbox";s:1:"0";s:16:"use_searchstring";s:0:"";}]
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Usr_upl entered]

Notice: date_default_timezone_set(): Timezone ID 'UTC-6' is invalid in **Removed for security**/wp-content/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/wppa-date-time.php on line 181
[WPPA+ dbg msg: Nothing to do...]

I did the removed for security thing it actually had the right stuff there before. I am pulling my hair out. Maybe my settings are wrong but simply all I am trying to do is:
Have a page with the top 10
A page with most recent uploaded photos
A page where the user see only the photos they uploaded (I didn’t see an option to do this so i wrote a php shortcode of my own to handle this)

Theme Responsive (child)
Latest version of wp and wppa
tried without plugins

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-photo-album-plus/