Sundogs and haybales in a blizzard-like ND snowscape Acrylic Print

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"Who Let the (sun) Dogs Out?"
I shot this on 1/15/20 while travelling home on US Highway 2, east of Devils lake. Temperature was -10F (probably about -30F with windchill). Just prior to shooting this (and I was stupidly outside coatless, since it was "only going to take a second"), a snowplow went by at full speed and covered me with powdery fresh snow. After it blew past me, it made a nice "blizzard" effect to complement the sundogs and three foreground bales (which is why I stopped here, for the "numeric symmetry" aspect with the sun+dogs. I was cold and wet for a while after getting back in the car, but it was worth it to get the shot!
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...