DomeHenge 2019 - Sun/dome Alignment at WI State Capitol viewed from across Lake Monona Wood Print

There are only a couple public vantage points on the shore of Lake Monona offering a view of the capital where the sun can be caught in alignment with the dome/statue on top (zoom in!). Wyldhaven park is one of them, and on ~May 10'th (and a day on each side) is when the sun slides behind the statue mounted atop dome. Another alignment occurs around Aug 1 as the sun slides south again in its annual oscillation. An ipad app I used, called "TP Ephemeris", allows alignments like this to be planned with precision based upon elevation, object height, vantage point, etc..

Captured 5/10/19 with Pentax K-1 and DA*300mm 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...