Northern Lights

- a very special night end of February and too good not to share!

A text from my sister in Reykjavik tipped me off just in time. I grabbed any warm clothing I could lay my hands on, grabbed the camera bag and stormed out of the house to drive nearly an hour north of Newcastle, away from any light pollution. And there they were - almost 11 years to the day after seeing northern lights for the first time in Iceland - they were dancing over the Northumberland sky!

Budle Bay, Northumberland

Happy (Filler) Friday everyone and thank you so much for your warm welcome back and your views and comments!

[Claire]

You have to be joking me! Oh this is just gorgeous, delightful, heavenly, bloody awesome woman!
Fav'd a 1000 times over

[bmnorthernlight]

@claireuk Aw, thank you Claire :) It was just magical! I din't have to do much other than provide the camera and luckily I had my Dad's super wide angle lens on loan!!

[Maggiemae]

Here you are, with a name like that and now we see what it is all about! So special to see this! We heard about them from way down here in NZ!

[Maggiemae]

....and a big fav!

[bmnorthernlight]

@maggiemae Thank you so much for the fav and comment! It was a very special night all round and a lot of people had the chance to see northern lights this far south. We can be lucky in northumberland but if it's during the week I can't afford a sleepless night or inevitable cloud cover or rain will ruin the day ;)

[Anita Russell]

Lovely picture

[Judith Johnson]

Absolutely gorgeous, what a fabulous moment to capture! Big fav!

[Michael Elliott]

Awesome! Fav!

[summerfield]

been here in the northern hemisphere for 25 some years and i yet have to see this phenomenon. aren't you lucky!! great capture!

[mittens (Marilyn)]

This is wonderful Fav!

[Clare]

Wow! Stunning! Fav!

[☠northy]

this is fabulous! fav!

[John]

Very cool

[Judith Greenwood]

Fav for me - you lucky lucky person seeing this!

[Phil]

OMG B!! What an amazing sight, you lucky lady! FAV off the scale.
A chap I know went to Iceland, planned it for right conditions, moon not too big etc. Didn't see the northern lights once..! :)

[Phil]

PS Great to have you back, btw :)

[bmnorthernlight]

@filsie65 thanks so much!! It was amazing. Poor guy, but my sister who's livesd in Iceland for years hasn't seen them much either - cloud cover spoils the whole thing lol!! But she was lucky twice in Jan and February and texted me each time immediately to check here. Second time round we had perfect conditions and I had the day off after so could cope with the late night ;)

[Shepherdman's Wife]

Wow, this is fantastic! We went to Iceland to see the northern lights and they were barely visible. Very disappointing. Yours are fantastic. Huge Fav

[anainalens]

Beautiful! Lovely picture with spectacular colours. Welcome back, I've just started following along as I love seeing your great pictures of the North East; I moved down to the Midlands in 2009 but go home to Sunderland as often as I can.

[Archie Logical]

Wonderful, have to get up North at some point with the hope of getting this experience personally.

[bmnorthernlight]

@archielogical thank you for the fav! The Scottish isles may be safer bet ;) but there are some serious aurora hunters in the area here too! I got lucky for the first time in 15 years as I can't spend that much time chasing it.

[NWPixelChick (Kim)]

This is incredible!

[IvyG]

I’ve always wanted to see the Northern lights.