Metate Moonrise - First quarter moon with Metate arch in Devils Garden - Escalante Utah Wood Print

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The first quarter moon in early evening viewed through the beautiful metate arch in Devils Garden, UT in March 2009. Focus-stacking was used to achieve this image result - the moon was shot in separate exposure at same position, but with longer focal length (to achieve higher crater detail), and re-sized to match original and positioned exactly where it was in the single-image shot where the moon was blurry due to infinity focus.

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...