Infinite Loop
Over the 12 years that we've been taking holidays in Iceland, I must have snapped thousands of aurora photos. This one is still among my favourites.
November. The 94% illuminated moon was high in the south-east, and lit the mountains on the opposite side of Berufjörður. The night was clear and still.
This curl of green aurora looping over the peaks and reflecting in the fjord gave me this great shot.
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Skylight
Patiently we waited in the cold and blustery darkness, hoping that the clouds didn't increase, hoping that the forecast was accurate, hoping that we were lucky.
The green lady didn't disappoint us.
The #aurora dances above Lómagnúpur mountain and the black sands of Skeiðarársandur - the largest outwash plain in the world - in south-eastern #Iceland.
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Ditched
Sometimes, the #aurora can take you by surprise.
We'd been sitting in a safe spot for hours, waiting for the chance of a display. The KP forecast was dropping, the air was freezing and it was getting towards midnight so we decided to head back to the hotel in Akureyri, northern #Iceland.
Halfway down the mountain, the sky started to dance. Which is how we came to be photographing the #NorthernLights from a roadside ditch!
Cold Green Fire
The #AuroraBorealis dances above eastern #Iceland.
Many people dream of the time that they'll stand beneath the aurora.
I'm one of the lucky ones, I know.
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The Green Lady Dances
Berufjörður in eastern #Iceland and a spectacular auroral ballet is coming to an end. Very often, the arcs and bars of light in a display become discontiguous patches and gradually fade into the night sky, as this one has done. Aurora like this are very difficult to see with the naked eye, although the camera can still detect them.
The green colouration is caused by monatomic oxygen.
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Sweet Green Fire
The dream of every aurora hunter - to catch the corona, directly overhead.
This shot has been in our libraries for a while, I hadn't edited it before as it was high ISO (6400) and very grainy. Also, by the time the corona appeared it was getting cloudy, so there's some natural interference.
Recently I rediscovered the RAW file, so pulled it into PhotoShop to work on it this morning.
So, this is my birthday card to myself today!
Skylight
A windy and cloudy night across Grýtubakkahreppur, but the #NorthernLights show us the way.
February, north-eastern #Iceland.
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Moonlit Búlandstindur, the pyramidal mountain, between Berufjörður and Hamarsfjörður fjords in eastern #Iceland. A wonderful display of firecrackers courtesy of the #AuroraBorealis and lots of stars including the Plough/Big Dipper aka Ursa Major.
One of my first #NorthernLights experiences and one I will never forget.
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The green ballerina graced us with a fleeting visit that night. She left a lasting impression in my heart.
We parked at the top of Víkurskarð on a November night for hours, waiting for signs of a display.
Nada.
So we packed up and drove down the mountain again and, when we were halfway back to Akureyri, the sky exploded into cold green fire. We stopped in the first safe place - a ditch!
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