Crystal Christmas Tree - WI State Capitol Christmas Tree through Glass Globe Canvas Print

This is a single image photograph taken through a 4" diameter crystal ball, between lens and the Christmas tree in rotunda of the WI State Capitol, from second level. The out-of-focus lights on the tree (to side of ball- on actual tree) gave a nice dreamy background effect - I had originally planned on compositing the crystal image with in-focus wide-angle tree shot, but I liked this better! This would make a beautiful square-format Christmas Pillow!

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...