Peter Herzog was born in Coburg Germany in 1943. In 1952 he moved to the United States when his mother married an US Soldier. In 1961, he graduated from John Adams High School in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1964, Peter decided to follow in the footsteps of his Stepfather and joined the Army.  In 1968, he served with the 10th Cavalry, 4th Infantry Division as a Cavalry Scout.  Returning home to the United States in December 1968, changed forever. In the spring of 1969, he visited a friend with whom he had served with in Germany, here in Montana and moved here a month later. He graduated from Eastern Montana College (now MSU-B) and during this time met his wife Carole and they settled down for the next 50+ years. In 1999, Pete took a job in Seattle WA, as the Controller of Hudson Bay Insulation until he retired in February of2011, when he and Carole moved to Arizona. Three years later, they moved back to Billings, Montana.

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Peter started his photography journey in 2007, when he purchased his first digital camera. Photography is about the subject, composition and light. I want my images to convey emotion. I want to bring out the beauty that we find in nature. The feeling in your soul when looking at a majestic landscape, or experiencing the Southwest's amazing colorful sunsets, when the blue-green ocean waves crash into the rocky shores we feel alive and the simplicity of puppies, kittens and babies. Hopefully through my images people can see and feel the world the way it really is.

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Suffering from PTSD, photography is my therapy. It grounds me and takes away all of the memories, when I'm out creating my images.