Joni Niemelä’s Finnish Night Sky: Moonlight, Reflections and Star Trails
A moon above a pine forest can be every bit as absorbing as a sky full of northern lights. In Joni Niemelä’s Finnish night photographs, snow...
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Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Transform Ordinary Lights
A row of lights seems to have stretched straight up from a snowy neighbourhood. Blue, yellow and white columns hang above the roofs, as tho...
Joni Niemelä’s Aurora Photographs from Southern Ostrobothnia
Some of Joni Niemelä’s aurora photographs open like a curtain. Others curl above the trees or settle into a lake reflection. The pleasure o...
Camping Beneath the Stars in the Mont Blanc Massif: An Alpine Photo Essay
The tents are small pools of light in a very large landscape. Around them, the Mont Blanc massif is all snow, dark rock and sharp outlines;...
A First Aurora in Yellowknife: Photographs by just.sitting.around
The cabin is small, the trees are dark, and almost everything else seems to be sky. This Yellowknife aurora collection captures the excitem...
An Aurora Film from 2015: Colour, Motion and the Superstorm Claim
Green curtains sweep across the sky, edged with brighter pink light. The aurora video circulated as a “superstorm,” a word that certainly f...
Tiina Törmänen’s Northern Landscapes: Light, Forest and Human Scale
Tiina Törmänen’s northern photographs give the sky plenty of room. Snow-covered trees become sculptural shapes, a lone figure stands beneat...
Edge of Stability: Jeff Boyce’s Storm and Night-Sky Film
The cloud fills most of the picture, but the strip of land beneath it matters. It gives the storm a scale, a setting and a relationship wit...
Vincent Brady’s Planetary Panoramas
Four cameras point outwards from a compact rig. The arrangement is a useful clue to Vincent Brady’s Planetary Panoramas : the film is built...
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The Lyrid Meteor Shower: An April Event Beyond the 2014 Livestream
The Lyrids return to the April sky as Earth encounters debris associated with Comet Thatcher. They are meteors in our atmosphere, not stars...