Viking Park Two-Tone - Yahara river in early winter near Stoughton WI Metal Print

metal prints winter duck yahara river stoughton wisconsin wi dog park snowing ducks cattails grey november

photographs winter duck yahara river stoughton wisconsin wi dog park snowing ducks cattails grey november

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"Viking Park Two-tone"
The side-loop of Yahara river, where it cuts through Viking Park (Stoughton, WI) forms this quiet pond where people are often seen fishing on both shores. I was out driving around during the early AM snowfall on Tuesday, and the two distinct tones (predominant greys and yellow-browns of cat-tails and willows) is what caught my eye here. It looked like a "selective color" photoshop filter had been applied to actual reality!

Image captured 11/25/20 with Pentax K-1 and DFA28-105 lens at 34mm.

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...