A Starry Night at the Blackmore Barn - milky way and barn in rural ND #2 Wood Print

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I used various combinations of "twirl-distortions" on the summer milky way to create this Van Gogh-like Starry Night rendition of a prior image in my collection.

Prior image narrative follows:
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While up in ND helping with harvest, I went to a nearby abandoned barn (south of Leeds) to shoot some nightscapes.
While shooting this shot (a series of six 30 second exposures using a fisheye lens for full-sweep of milky way), I heard a rustling sound behind me, which gave me a bladder-strength test, as I had been hearing coyotes howling pretty frequently! I slowly turned around to face my "enemy", lit my flashlight, and there was a skunk, 🦨 with tail held high in the air, contemplating whether to waste its scent on this intruder to its domain. We had a 30 second staredown, after which it decided to save its perfume, and it turned and wandered away. What a relief!

Image captured 9/9.

Peter Herman was born and raised on a farm in North Dakota. He first became interested in photography during high-school, and after acquiring a Pentax SLR, began taking photos for the school yearbook and developing/printing B&W images in school darkroom. He continued shooting through college, taking portraits, group pictures, weddings, but after beginning his engineering career at Cummins, he let his photography interests go dormant until about 2005 when he acquired his first DSLR and started shooting scenic landscapes from around the US, but concentrating especially on rural areas in ND and WI. Many of his images were encountered while riding motorcycle down random backroads during "golden hour", searching for that magic light...