Icy Battle - Last remnant of unfrozen Yahara River in Stoughton WI Metal Print

Icy Battle" I was out driving around on the snowy day of 1/26/19 looking for winter scenics and stumbled upon this, taken from the bridge of Yahara River trail of the Yahara river where it exits from slow/lake-like area and was quickly losing its battle to the encroaching ice. I liked the way the snowfall gives depth to the scene and the jagged-edges of the river create a sharp dividing line between "life and death". The river almost looks like a path, but one fraught with grave peril if taken! Taken with Pentax K-1 and DFA28-105mm lens at 105mm on 1/26/19. Temperature about 2F.

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...