Park Avenue Blues - abandoned car and farmstead on the North Dakota prairie Wood Print

"Park Avenue Blues"
I've driven by this derelict car and (vacant?) house near Devils Lake, ND, hundreds of times and always kind of liked the way the Park Avenue car, replete with 4 matching fully-flat tires and sporting a multi-tone paint/rust patina sort of matches the house trim and roof (yeah, I notice strange things - the curse of a photographer). Anyway, last week when I was home, I finally pulled in and grabbed a quick shot, but felt very strange doing so, since I'm not certain the place is empty, and kind of felt "watched", if you know what I mean..

Image taken 5/19/19 with Pentax K-1 and DFA28-105 lens.

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...