Go to your Happy Place - Historic Cooksville WI schoolhouse with swing on foggy morning Metal Print

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The swing framed below the historic Cooksville schoolhouse turned the whole scene into a big smiley face on this foggy September 6'th morning. Image captured in infrared spectrum (>720nm), which is why the green grass and trees "glow" white.
Some history clipped from the "Cooksville News" website -
"The Cooksville School began early life as a log structure in the 1840s, replaced by a brick building on the Public Square about 1850. But because of structural problems and its small size, it was replaced in 1886 by the present wooden frame building.” The school closed down circa 1950 and is presently being maintained and used as a community center.

Full disclosure - I deleted a third center window to make the smiley work!

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...