The Witness Metal Print

This tractor has sat here on this desolate prairie hilltop in rural ND, a silent witness to the Milky Way tumbling through its annual dance for decades. I always feel "sorry" for old abandoned equipment in the wintertime. Silly, I know..

Taken 11/19/17, ~4 mi SE of Brinsmade ND with Pentax K-1 and Rokinon 14mm lens, 30 sec exposure at f2.8.

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...