Northern lights over spruce trees. Canon 5D Mark II, 16-35mm f/2.8L, 30 sec @ f/2.8, ISO 1000
At the midway point through March, the daylight is flooding into Alaska’s interior. Further north, there is only a few more weeks of photographic opportunity for the aurora borealis. I hope to get out once or twice more, but by mid April the night sky is very bright up above the arctic circle, my favorite region to photograph the aurora. I took this picture during the recent solar storm that made magic night skies across Alaska. I was scouting out a more pleasing foreground location when the aurora flared up, so while that element is not the strongest, the shape in the sky was striking so I just stopped and shot a few frames.
Hi!!
Fantastiv blog you got here! Love your pictures!
Have a nice day!
Regards from Norway
Leiv Arne
Hey Patrick
Really nice. Wish we had snow-loaded trees like that here, but it’s been so windy.
cheers
Carl
Thanks Leiv,
Carl, we have had tremendous winds this season also. Sometimes those trees are completely encased in snow. Pretty wild looking.
Hi,
Thanks for this blog, the photos are amazing..
You got so much talent..
Regards from France..
Audrey
Patrick, that is one amazing image!! Thanks for sharing. You do live in one of the World’s Photographers Heaven.
Thanks Jay, and I must agree, the land that surrounds me is so rich with visual pleasures, that it is a photographer’s dream.
Thank you Audrey, visiting all the way from France! Some day, I’ll make it that way.
We leave one week from today for Bettles!
Wow, that a real keeper, beautiful!
Will, good luck with your shooting.
Alan, Thanks, I enjoyed your website.