ND Pyramid - Stanley R Mickelsen Safeguard Complex Metal Print

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his scene looks like something from a science fiction movie - it is the abandoned anti-ballistic missile installation near Nekoma, ND. It was built back in the 70's, and was only active for about 6 months in 1975. The pyramid structure houses the radar, and the structures in foreground were above underground power plant. I shot this from a road on 10/12/20 (you can't enter the facility, which is now privately owned!)

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...