Native Pasque flowers or crocus on a coulee pasture with ladybug Canvas Print

A clump of fuzzy Pasque flowers blooms on a hillside above a small ND coulee in early spring, and a hungry ladybug scavenges for the many tiny bugs that are attracted to the flowers. Image captured with 50mm macro lens (so background perspective is "as seen") in late April, 2020. I have many other crocus/pasque flowers - just search for "crocus" on my page..

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...