Wisconsin Sentinel - Lonely tree atop a Wisconsin hilltop Acrylic Print

I encountered this simple/stark scene of a lone oak tree atop a hill a few miles west of Attica, WI, while driving to a different location I was going to do some shooting at (Muralt Bluff). I thought B&W suited the simple nature of this scene, in the colorless, leafless pre-spring condition.

Captured on 4/19/19 with Pentax K-1 with DA*300mm 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...