Playground Memories - swings and witches-hat merry go round at Cooksville WI schoolhouse in fog Wood Print

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"Playground Memories" - regular color version (another version taken with infrared camera is available just search "Playground Memories" to see both).

Cooksville School house playground with it’s rare “witches hat” swinging merry-go-round captured in Infrared on a foggy morning. The schoolhouse in front of this playground was built in 1886 in Cooksville, WI (about 8 miles south of Stoughton). It is now repurposed as a well-cared-for Community Center.

Image captured 9/6/22 with Pentax K-1 and DFA15-30mm lens at 30mm.

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...