The full spectrum of the northern lights can be seen over the Vestrahorn location. What a wonderful experience! A strong storm hit the earth on October 31st and produced these wonderful colors.
There is a picture of Stefan Liebermann.
Northern Norway has some of the most beautiful and dramatic sights in northern Europe. The bright displays spread across the sky when strong intensity auroras are predicted. The cold temperatures form ice shapes by the riverbank and these structures help direct your eyes in the right direction.
There is a photograph of Virgil Reglioni.
It was a sight to behold. The magnificence of the northern lights. There are lights that move and dance. There are moments of brilliance and shimmer. If you let it be, life will be the same. You can learn to savour the small moments. You can learn to ebb and flow with time and space.
Joshua Snow.
One of the resolutions I made for the year was to shoot the Milky Way and the Aurora together. I didn't think I would fulfill this one so soon. I went to a location where I hoped to see the lights rise between two mountain peaks, but it was a cold night. The green lady started dancing and the Milky Way joined the party. The red cabin was added to the shot. The result is a photo that combines 12 vertical shots at 14mm to fully cover the two arches.
The photograph is of Stefano Astorri.
The journey is often more important than the results, and after taking this picture I think this was a trip to remember. It wasn't a long hike but when you don't have snowshoes and you sink half a meter with every step, it feels 50 times longer. I will follow the skiing routes when I go there again. The whole way up it was partly cloudy. I was able to capture what I was looking for. I got some decent shots of the winter Milky Way before the show started, which was the cherry on the cake of this night.
There is a photograph of Olli Sorvari.
When I started learning how to take landscape photographs, I didn't like the images of the northern lights because they didn't contain anything in the composition other than the lights and the sky. I was impressed when I saw the photographs by Adamus over the beautiful mountain scenery. Since then, I've had a new passion for taking pictures of the northern lights, where the landscape and composition play a major role and the Aurora is in harmony. I focused on the snow monsters to make the shot look alien.
Sergey Korolev is pictured.
I was on a photography trip when the alerts on my phone started to show up. As the sun set and the dusk fell, we could see the Aurora forming. The sky was filled with colors as the pillars danced across the sky in one of the best displays I have seen for years. This night was simply incredible, and I like to capture the Aurora.
Larryn Rae is pictured.
The image is perfect for showing the northern lights in Senja, northern Norway. The views were stunning, with snowcapped landscapes, spectacular mountains, and a dancing Aurora that coloured everything green. It was a great night. The weather was perfect this evening in March. The northern lights were on for a long time after I arrived. I was very happy to return home and grateful for the experience.
Frydis Dalheim Senja.
This was one of the prettiest nights I have experienced since moving to the area. This was the beginning of a long night of chasing the Aurora. I like to explore locations and find new compositions that have never been seen before, and I have been inside this hidden cave all season long. It's not easy to photograph inside the caves, but I like the compositions that use focus stacking and multi-exposure. The three-dimensional effect that they give is something I love.
Giulio Cobianchi is pictured.
It was another beautiful night in Iceland. I had the foreground for the northern lights in mind for a long time and just waited for the perfect condition to come and capture it. I needed calm, windless weather, a clear sky, and strong northern lights. The photo was challenging because I had to adjust the settings on my camera depending on the strength of the northern lights. I was not able to stand straight because there was not enough room for my feet. I was able to freeze when the lights came on.
A picture of Mrowka.
The events of 3 November will stay with me for the rest of my life. A combination of a solar flare and a CME sparked the Aurora on this night. I jumped into the car and drove eight hours north to escape the cloud cover over the Midwest Great Lakes region, after seeing the initial hit in the data. It is always a challenge to find compositions in the dark. The amount of detail in this image is amazing. I have never seen so many colors. The whole night felt like a dream.
Marybeth Kiczenski is pictured.
Nature leaves us open-mouthed at the inexplicable manifestations of its power. The image was taken in February on the Barents Sea coast. The night was special. The perfect conditions for shooting the northern lights were frost, ice, a full moon, and no wind. The temperature was -34C, but flames like these make you forget.
A picture of Aleksey R.
We experienced one of the most powerful displays of the Aurora at mid-latitudes in the night of 3 and 4 November 2021. I wanted to take pictures of the lights over the island. The skies came alive after four hours of mediocre Aurora. As sub-storms flared, the ice covering the lake gave way to a thin sheet of ice that the Aurora danced and shimmied across. During the quiet lulls a great-horned owl could be heard in the distance, as the coyotes howled as if to voice their approval. I took this picture before 2am.
Mark Jinks is pictured.
I wondered if it would be possible to take a picture of the Aurora above the volcano. It is a once-in-a-lifetime capture in Iceland. It was one of the last opportunities before the nights got too bright again. My body temperature plummeted when I waited in the wind. Everything changed suddenly. The clouds opened and I saw the Aurora. I was amazed at my luck. I was shot after the event unfolded.
Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove is pictured.
It is one of the most magical experiences but also one of the most difficult to capture. It's not uncommon for the temperature to be -30C and below, and the snow on snowshoes is easily broken, making it difficult to negotiate. I used the last light of twilight to set up the shot you see here and returned to it hours later as the lights were dancing overhead.
The photograph is by Marc Adamus.
