Fireworks at Stoughton WI Clock Tower Opera House City Hall Wood Print

Fireworks exploding behind the iconic clock tower (Opera House and City Hall) on July 4'th 2019. Captured with Pentax K-1 and DFA20-35mm lens using a "focus racking" technique where the exposure is partially completed "in focus" and then focus is racked out. This created the blurred firework "blobs" which, in this particular case, were the "blinker" type, and I really liked the resulting effect.

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...