Frozen Wave - surreal view of frozen lake Kegonsa at sunrise Wood Print

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"The Frozen Wave" - surreal series
I've been selecting some of my photographs and applying various combinations of distort/blur operations to create evocative/surreal abstracts. This image was created using a sunrise photograph taken from the frozen surface of Lake Kegonsa. The original image is also available on my gallery, and might make an interesting pairing with this abstract - just search for title "Lake Kegonsa Showing Off". This surreal version reminds me a bit of famous Japanese woodblock print, "The Great Wave" by Hokusai.

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...