Promise to the Veterans - Full rainbow above the Stoughton Veterans Memorial Park right at sunset Canvas Print

"Promise to the Veterans"
I noticed the sky glowing in west, just prior to sunset, and that it was still sprinkling, so I jumped in the Jeep and headed straight over to the beautiful Stoughton Veterans Memorial Park where I've been planning to capture a full-rainbow above it. Success! The sun set just moments after this image was captured, and the rainbow quickly melted away into the purple/blue. I had to retouch a lot of droplet spots from rain drops that landed on the front of my bulbous ultrawide lens. I also deleted the ugly power lines and poles that are above those trees in background - they should be buried anyway!

Image captured ~8:30 PM on 7/26/20.

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...