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Sturgeon Bay Canal Pierhead Lighthouse - horizontal Art Print
by Peter Herman
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Sturgeon Bay Canal Pierhead Lighthouse - horizontal art print by Peter Herman. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse
This attractive red lighthouse, built in 1881, is found on the end of a long breakwater at the south side of the... more
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Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse
This attractive red lighthouse, built in 1881, is found on the end of a long breakwater at the south side of the Sturgeon bay canal. The actual dug canal cuts through about a mile of the Door County peninsula, allowing ships to avoid the more treacherous route around the tip of Door called "Death's Door". The canal project was initially a private venture - sort of a "canal toll road"! The steel structure you see in these pic's is a "catwalk" to enable workers to reach the lighthouse even when waves are breaking over the top of breakwater. Can you imagine how terrifying it would be to walk the catwalk (almost 1/4 mile long!) in those conditions?!
The light was very harsh when I was there to photograph it a couple weeks ago, so I decided to "make lemonade" and take the harsh light to an even higher level by including the sun in the compositions, along with post-processing steps of partial B&W conversion, among other things. Another...
About Peter Herman
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...
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