Snowflake Mandala - snow and shadows on decking planks - mirrored creation Metal Print

"Snowflake Mandala” - Snow and Shadows on Deck Planks
The sleet/snow on the planks of my back deck, combined with shadows cast by balusters created some strong geometrical elements that I knew would be fun to play with and morph into something interesting. Here's a variation created by a "twirl" + 3 plane mirror that I rather liked. You can see a bit of a deck board edge creating the center "star".
Image captured and created 2/23/22.

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...