Aurora Borealis
Taken by Richard Pyne on March 17, 2015 @
14km outside of Kiruna, Northern Sweden
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 700D
Exposure Time: 15/1
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2015:03:27 16:30:01
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In Abisko on the afternoon of Tuesday March 17th, the weather websites forecast cloud. Kiruna, where I had
come from on the Sunday, was forecast to be partly cloudy. Back there on the last train then, and a last minute panic booking on an Aurora photography tour to get me out of the city. They had one place left, and after looking at the developing and increasingly bonkers aurora forecast, my anxiety intensified. We were taken to a frozen lake 14km away and were met with a clear starlit sky, mild temperatures, no wind and a developing aurora. From before 9pm to near midnight the sky was all gossamer fire, curtain and corona (during which these shots were taken). I was still hoping for the aurora mother lode though. At around the witching hour, as we began to head back to the van (I know, a risky, risky move), the lights began to intensify. We stopped, and then shazam! They went bananas. Bright green, yellow, yellow green, peppermint, white, purple and the blessed pink. They danced and concertinaed in a manner I cannot remotely describe and then took a bow with a brilliant and glorious corona. It was the aurora mother lode, the full fruit salad light show. No-one in our group or our guide took any photos (our gear was packed away). We just watched this transient beauty, quietly stunned. A butterfly of a display that you couldn't capture, you were just supposed to watch it flutter its colourful wings before it flew away.
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