Dale and Karlie’s Northern Lights Proposal in Lofoten
The camera was ready for the northern lights. Dale Sharpe had something else in mind. During a trip to Norway’s Lofoten Islands in March 2...
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Northern Lights Destinations: Places, Conditions and Different Ways to Experience the Sky
There is a lovely moment on an aurora night when everyone stops checking their phone and simply looks up. Choosing where to travel can help...
A Wolf-Shaped Aurora: Marja-Terttu Karlsson’s Remarkable Photograph
First you see the green sweep of the northern lights. Then a pointed muzzle, an arched back and what looks remarkably like an animal boundi...
Tomi Rantanen’s Inari Aurora Time-Lapse: A Lake Beneath a Moving Sky
The boat stays still. The lake catches the colour. Above them, the northern lights seem to paint a new sky every few seconds. Tomi Rantanen...
The Milky Way and Aurora in Maciej Winiarczyk’s Scottish Night Sky
A still boat and a dark Scottish loch would already make a lovely foreground for the Milky Way. Add a green aurora to the sky and the photo...
Horacio Llorens Beneath the Northern Lights: An Arctic Night Flight
An illuminated paraglider wing hangs beneath a sweep of green light. The pilot looks tiny against the sky, and that difference in scale is ...
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...
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...
Whales Beneath the Northern Lights: Harald Albrigtsen’s Film
The northern lights would be enough to hold your attention. Then you notice the water. In Harald Albrigtsen’s footage, whales appear beneat...
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...
18 Green Aurora Photographs: From Arctic Landscapes to the Space Station
From the ground, a green aurora can look like a curtain stretched across the sky. From the International Space Station, it becomes a lumino...
Ronn Murray’s Real-Time Aurora Film Near Fairbanks, January 2015
The dark trees hardly change, but the green light above them keeps finding new shapes. Ronn Murray’s aurora film invites a different kind o...
Ben Pierce’s Northern Lights Wish: The Story Behind the Photograph
In the photograph, a child raises his arms beneath the northern lights. The sky is spectacular, but the small figure makes this much more t...
Nicholas Buer’s Night Landscapes: The Ground Beneath the Light
The aurora supplies the colour, but the rocks tell the eye where to settle. Nicholas Buer’s night photographs give as much thought to the l...
Ten Northern-Lights Regions: Geography, Darkness and Realistic Expectations
A northern-lights shortlist is most useful when it begins with darkness, cloud cover and the ability to wait. Latitude helps, but no destin...