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"Catalpa Blossom"
As I was walking my dog, I happened to take a closer look at a flowering catalpa tree at our neighborhood park. I thought that the tiny orchid-like flowers would make an interesting macro photo subject. This resulting image is stacked from 7 shots (shifting focus slightly each time) to get "full flower" in focus, and then I applied a background gradient in a complementary color tone to the orange highlights in flower.

Image captured 6/25/22 with Pentax K-1 and DFA100 macro 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...