Sometimes when I head out to search for a scene that inspires me enough to take a picture, I have no idea where I’ll end up or what I’ll be shooting. However, today I knew I wanted some sort of picture that shows the frozen water that has taken over most of the lakes and ponds since the Arctic Vortex pushed all the cold air through-out the region. So, I decided to head to Earlington’s Loch Mary Lake to see what I could find there.
I walked along the shoreline looking for something that said “photograph me” and I found this one area that had shrubs and other things when I spied this little leaf sticking half in and half out of the ice and I knew I had what I was looking for. I ended up taking the case off my phone, turning it upside down and putting the phone right on the ice so I could get a real low angle with the bring clouds in the background to illuminate the leaf.
Post processing was done all in the phone, using an Apps called Dynamic Light and the border was added using Snapseed.