Wheat - Bugs eye view Metal Print

Image taken in North Dakota just prior to wheat harvest, shot from ground level with an ultra-wide lens (literally - I set camera, facing up, on a rag on the ground) looking up through a spectacular stand of wheat. The resulting image reminds me of a "wheat forest", of sorts, as viewed by a bug on the ground, complete with a sun-star at lower right, caused by the small aperture I used on lens to get maximum depth of field.

Taken 8/ 29/18 with Pentax K-1 and Pentax F 17-28mm fisheye lens at f22.

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...