Floral Fireworks - abstract zooming motion of flowering trees Canvas Print

Floral Fireworks"
This afternoon, the sky was heavy overcast giving a good flat light quality. I mounted a very dark filter (almost like welder helmet - 1000x reduction) on front of my 28-105 lens to enable manual zooming of lens DURING a long 6-10 second (handheld) exposure of this blooming combination of white and pink crabapple or cherry trees. I was shooting "under/within" the white blooming tree, focused towards the pink tree at center. I shot dozens of attempts, but this one "worked" for me (most others were abysmal fails!).

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...