Summer Serenity Metal Print

Here's a peaceful sunset image that I shot on 8/31/17 west of Stoughton. It is location that I often gravitate towards when riding around in the golden hour. I like the solitary tree, the curve of the trail, the hill, the crops, basically, everything about the place. Taken with Pentax K-1 and DFA28-105 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...