Category Archives: Personal

Big Red

If you follow my work, you may have already noticed that I have a thing for old barns. It’s just so fun stumbling upon an abandoned farm and trying to imagine everything that has happened there through out the years. A few weeks ago on a Saturday night my parents and I drove around the...

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You

I took this photo just West of Nielsville, MN. I was standing on the Niesville bridge when I took it. To purchase this print, check out my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/shop/mdphotography

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Free

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.  Muhammad Ali I took this photo at my parents farm last weekend. My mom and I both ran out to take photos of the sunset….they never...

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Find the Beautiful

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” I took this photo during a day long adventure exploring rural abandoned farms with my dad. I have this photo framed and sitting in my entry way because it reminds me of that day....

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Great Grandpas Barn {June 1933-July 2011}

On July 11, 2011 I watched as the barn I grew up playing in, dreaming in or just running away from the world in was burnt to the ground. The barn was built by my great grandpa, Alfred Peterson in June of 1933. At one point the old farmstead was a bustling working farm complete...

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