Wisconsin Snow Moon - Winter moonrise over farm Metal Print

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2021 Snow Moon
I went out on Saturday evening (2/27) to catch the rise of the "Snow Moon". This location south of Stoughton showed some prospect for being a good alignment (using my planning app, TPE), so I headed there and waited. The building in background says "Viney" so that must be name of the farmers that live there. This image is close to the actual color - I even dialed back saturation a bit - it rose like blood on the eastern horizon. Shot with a Pentax DA*200mm telephoto lens, and six second exposure using Pentax K-1.

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...