Convergence Dreams of Elders - 3 of 3 - surreal series Canvas Print

This surreal altered-reality was created from a "looking straight up" view in a grove of old-growth trees in Virgin Lake natural area (Stoughton WI). Snow during a hard driving wind the prior night left the tree trunks plastered with fresh white snow on their windward sides. Two other (realistic/non-surreal) images of this scene are also available - search for "Convergence".

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...