Silent Sunset - Abandoned farm home near Churches Ferry ND Metal Print

I found this "new" (to me) abandoned farmstead - once the Bye farm home and later the Myhre farm - during a visit to my home in May 2019. It is a spectacular beauty of a home - very large and with many architectural features. Unfortunately, vandals have smashed all the windows and done great damage which will dramatically accelerate its decay rate. It was abandoned, I presume, due to the rising flood waters of Devils Lake, which made access difficult (or impossible) for about a decade, until just recently.

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...