SiloHenge Sunrise 1 of 2 - sunrise aligned with farm silos and majestic oak tree Wood Print

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I planned (using Photo Ephemeris software) and waited patiently for a couple months for this "alignment" at a location near Stoughton, WI. I have another square-crop version where I shifted vantage point slightly to the right to put sunrise right between silos - search for same name. But I like this image a lot too, where the silos are less obscured by oak branches, and it has a beautiful simplicity, showing the fractal structure of the bare oak tree and the beautiful WI scenery.

Sunrise images taken 4/29/18 with Pentax K-1 and DFA100mm f2.8 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...