After shoveling most of the day (or maybe it only seemed like “most of the day”) yesterday, I had to brave the still snowy roads to take at least a few photos. The light was already failing, and it was, to be honest, a pretty dull day, despite the fresh snow. I ended up at Roger’s Pond, one of my dragonfly haunts in summer, and one of the few places with public access to the shores of the Mousam River…therefore a great favorite with fishermen. It was pretty dull there too, but I did isolate this little fragment of color, form, and texture. A winter abstract.

Samsung Smart Camera WB800F in Smart Auto. Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014. There were several out of focus bare wands in the lower right which were distracting enough so that I opened the image in Photo Editor, also on the Note, and cloned them out. The Note’s pen is very handy for such detail work, and Photo Editor, despite its somewhat lack-luster name, is an amazingly capable photo editor, with the most comprehensive set of tools on the Android platform 🙂 It can not match Snapseed for intuitive effects, but I often resort to it for fine tuning.