Cooper's Quarters - Hawk in evergreen with quarter moon above Wood Print

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"Cooper's Quarters"
While tooling around on my Honda Grom, I saw this Coopers hawk hanging out in his pad on a nearby evergreen tree, complete with waning third quarter moon in the background, and knew I had to go home and get my other camera (I was carrying my infrared rig). Luckily, he was still there when I got back, and was happy to pose for me!
Image captured at Stoughton High School on 8/18/22 with Pentax K1 and DA*300mm lens, focus-stacked for moon.

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...