Mikko Lagerstedt’s Night Landscapes: Quiet and Wonder
A person stands beneath an enormous sky. A road disappears into blue mist. Dark rocks sit in water that looks almost weightless. Mikko Lag...
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Night Photography: Stars, Aurora & Dark Landscapes
A night photograph records light differently from a quick glance at the sky. Explore star-filled landscapes, aurora scenes and experiments in panoramic imaging, with explanations that separate camera effects from the scene itself. The linked aurora and time-lapse collections offer more ways to look at movement, colour and the shape of the horizon.
Simon Trnka’s Mountain Nights: Sleeping Bags and Stars
The sleeping bags are almost as colourful as the sunrise. In Simon Trnka’s mountain photographs, camping equipment, companions and the cha...
Green Auroras: Northern Lights from Earth and Space
From the ground, a green aurora can look like a curtain stretched across the sky. From the International Space Station, it becomes a lumin...
Vivienne Gucwa’s Snowy New York: A Quieter City
New York looks unusually spacious in Vivienne Gucwa’s snow photographs. Streetlights glow through falling flakes, long lines of buildings ...
Ben Coffman’s Night Landscapes: Mountains Under the Stars
In Ben Coffman’s photographs, the stars have company. A glowing tent, a mountain reflected in still water or the dark outline of a canyon ...
Ronn Murray’s Real-Time Aurora Film from Alaska
The dark trees hardly change, but the green light above them keeps finding new shapes. Ronn Murray’s aurora film invites a different kind ...
Night-Sky Photography: Five Ways to Read a Brilliant Sky
A brilliant sky is only part of a successful night photograph. A figure, a line of stones or a reflection can change the whole feeling of ...
Two Lands: Joe Capra’s Greenland and Iceland Aurora Photos
The aurora may be the headline attraction, but Joe Capra’s photographs give you plenty to enjoy beneath it. Rivers, ice, buildings and sno...
Northern Lights in Norway: Give the Night a Landscape
A bright aurora is a wonderful sight, but the mountains, water and small buildings beneath it make these photographs worth a longer look. ...
Mikko Lagerstedt’s Night II: Finland after Dark
The snow beneath the trees is blue with shadow, while warm light glows farther into the forest. Mikko Lagerstedt’s Night II collection ma...
The Matterhorn Lit Up: Behind Mammut’s 2015 Image
A trail of red points climbs the dark outline of the Matterhorn. The lights make a route visible in a way that a daytime photograph cannot...
Lapland’s Northern Lights: Colour, Landscape and Folklore
A road disappears into the snow, while colour spreads across the sky above it. Lapland’s aurora photographs are especially inviting when t...
Toroidal Sky: How a 360-Degree Night Panorama Works
Vincent Brady’s panoramic night-sky work turns a familiar scene into something delightfully disorienting. Stars arc around the landscape, ...