Balance of Power - Aliant Edgewater power plant at Sheboygan WI on Lake Michigan shoreline Acrylic Print

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"Balance of Power"
Here's an icescape from Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Smokestacks are from the 380 Megawatt Alliant coal-fired Edgewater Generating Station along Lake Michigan shoreline, on south side of city. The plant has already been partially shut down, and will be fully decommissioned by end of this year.

As I was crouched down on the ice shelf shooting this, I started to have a feeling of "motion", at which point I realized the ice shelf was bobbing up and down with the waves. I quickly finished shooting and made an exit!
Image captured 1/29/22 with Pentax K-1 and DFA15-30 at 15mm - two horizontal shots stitched vertically, so this is an ultra-ultra wide perspective.

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...