St Paul Liberty Lutheran Church in Deerfield WI 1 of 2 Acrylic Print

"St. Paul's Liberty Lutheran Church" image number 1 of 2
According to history section on the church's website, this may be the oldest Norwegian Lutheran church in America. Its history appears intertwined with the Norwegian Koshkonong East/West churches that I posted images of a few days ago (are ya'll tired of church pictures yet?), and was built about 9 miles North of those congregations, since it was taking congregants several hours by horse/oxen to travel to Koshkonong (according to interesting history tidbits in https://www.stpll.org/?page_id=16). This image, and the other one posted of same, with ultrawide perspective at gate, were taken well after sunset last night, 7/12/19, when the colors were just exploding in the high clouds.

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...