A Starry Night at the Antiochia Lutheran Church - abandoned but not forgotten Canvas Print

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I used various combinations of "swirl-distort" operations to create this Van Gogh-like Starry Night rendition of the summer milky way behind the abandoned rural Antiochia Lutheran Church in ND. The original image can be found with title "Abandoned but Not Forgotten - Antiochia Lutheran Nighscape #3 with milky way"
Original narrative follows:
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On a very dark and clear night last month, I tried to create/capture some visions I envisioned of the the Milky Way arching above the beautiful Antiochia Lutheran Church (Ramsey County, ND). I also experimented with some low-level lighting techniques whereby I placed my lit-Iphone and another small flashlight inside the building (during long exposures) to "bring it back to life".. This image features the "Back side" of the Antiochia Lutheran church with core of our galaxy (Milky Way) directly to left of steeple (we're looking south southwest here). The sky on this shot was composite from 6 separate 30 second...

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...