Blue Hour - post sunset over a Playa at White Sands National Monument New Mexico Metal Print

The earths shadow climbs on the horizon, chasing away the pinks above, as sun sets behind me. A pair of figures at far edge of playa gives a sense of scale to this otherworldly environment. This image, looking east over a playa in White Sands, NM was captured 5/21/17 with Pentax K-1 and Rokinon 14mm lens.

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...