can i just say: "it was awesome" and leave it at that? spent the weekend on my own in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories... one of the best places for viewing the aurora borealis... this probably should be viewed large...
i have a gazillion shots to go thru - not just of the aurora, i took lots of pictures of other stuff as well... plus i desperately need to work on catching up here... but i needed to see if any of the shots i took came out ok... they were much noisier than i would have liked, despite using the strongest of the noise reduction features in my camera... but i think the focus was reasonably ok which was one of my biggest worries... and frankly, the photos pale in comparison to the real thing anyway... it really was beyond awe-inspiring :)
btw, the exif time is off by 2 hours as i never changed the time in my camera... so this was taken around midnight on Friday, not 2am-ish on Saturday...
How cool! I love the colour! My husband does a fair amount of building in Yellowknife. I'll have to fly up and visit one trip. Seeing this is totally on my bucket list!!
@kwind oh wow! wish i'd known - i'd have looked out for him or at least something he's built! if it means anything to him, i went to prosperous lake to shoot this... quite the adventure driving down the highway in pitch black at 80km/hr!
Oh, wow! How cool and awesome and spectacular to see! Did you camp or stay there by yourself? Was it a quck trip? Do they look like clouds in real life? Are there other colors? :o)
@riverlandphotos i made the trip on my own, and stayed at a b&b... just there for the weekend, so yeah, a quick trip... in real life, they aren't quite that vibrant to the naked eye - but i really didn't do much processing on them... they're not quite cloud like... more like some alien life force you'd see on star trek ;p most of the ones i saw were green, altho a few of the photos ended up with some tinges of purple... :)
Wowser!! Nice to know you can see it outside of the dead of winter! I'm more inspired to go now. LOL!! Alone would DEF. be the best choice for something like this methinks! :-)
Awesome indeed! You have taken a great photograph of it. The trees bottom right is a nice touch. Definitely needs to be seen large. Look forward to more!
Fantastic - were there actually colours to the naked eye or only when you'd processed it? When I saw them in Iceland they looked more like fast-moving contrails than anything else - it was when you saw the photos that the green really hit you (other people's - I didn't manage to get any, which is what started this whole photography thing!). I'd love to see them when they're really 'dancing'
@dextermurray tx Dexter! If you click on "view info"beside the word exif on the right it shld show you my settings... I was using a wide angle lense... f/3.5 (as wide open as that lense goes)... think ISO of 400... And 15 sec shutter speed...
@taz_o yes - somehow the colours are more accentuated in camera than to naked eye... I didn't do huge ants of processing, but to my eye they were more pale green... They didn't seem to dance so much as ebb and flow... It really was something to see!
FLIPPN' HECK! I must have been out of the country to have missed this one. FAVE and then some. 👏👏👏👏👏
Saw this on the bucket list thread - I would need more than a mother of a telescope to see it from the Southern Hemisphere though!
you must still feel soooo smug.... :-D
@ltodd awwww... tx Lyn! not smug so much... awestruck, humbled and grateful for the privilege, perhaps... it was an unspeakably amazing thing to see in action :)
January 9th, 2015
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I saw them once years ago, way up in the Baltic, stunning and just a teensy bit spooky! :)
Saw this on the bucket list thread - I would need more than a mother of a telescope to see it from the Southern Hemisphere though!
you must still feel soooo smug.... :-D