Bedazzled Blackmore Barn #2 - Sun pokes through roof hole on abandoned barn in ND Canvas Print

"Bedazzled Blackmore Barn #2"
I've shot this barn/location SW of Brinsmade ND so many times now, it is starting to feel like an old friend (just search for "Blackmore" on my gallery and you'll find many more. On the morning of Oct 17, after the first dusting of the season, I swung by and collected a few new shots, including this one. This shot was my favorite, with the sun poking through a small hole in the roof, creating "sunstar" (zoom in!) by use of a small aperture on my lens. It took me a while to get perfectly aligned - an inch or two movement in any direction and it disappeared!The Blackmore barn portfolio grows..

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...