Anyone want a peek at the northern lights?

[Rick P]

Really good display this morning, definately worth getting up at 4am. I have a ton of these if ya'll would like to see more.

 

[GoodTurns]

i wouldn't mind! now I know my next casting mix!

 

[Rick P]

Suns coming up.....

 

[Leviblue]

Rick,
These look great. You did a nice job on capturing the colors. Keep them coming.

 

[Rick P]

Casting mix, casting mix lets see how about a bit of red?

 

[Rick P]

One of my personal favorites from this am.........LOVE it when I can get a purple flare!

 

[Rick P]

So glad I walked down to the river for these! I personally really dig the way the water reflects the lights.

 

[Rick P]

Lets see a bit more purple before I take a nap?

 

[Rick P]

I can post more later if anyone wants.......gonna get a couple hours of shut eye.

 

[arioux]

"Aurora Borealis" hey that's a nice name for a pen blank .

 

[Rick P]

Rick,
These look great. You did a nice job on capturing the colors. Keep them coming.

Thanks! I really enjoy shooting the light and in low light conditions........one more for Levi.

 

[philb]

Those are stunning pictures!! Definately worth getting up early for!

 

[Russianwolf]

Adds another reason to the "Want to move to Alaska because" list.:biggrin:

 

[ssajn]

I remember seeing them when I was sailing in the merchant marine in Lake Superior. Beautiful.

 

[Rob73]

Awesome.

 

[titan2]

Those would make great desktop wallpaper if they were higher res! Just tried it with the first one and it lost all the detail......BUMMER!!!!

Great looking pictures!


Barney

 

[Jim15]

Great pictures, thanks for posting them.

 

[seamus7227]

Those are stunning pictures!! Definately worth getting up early for!

this pretty much sums it up! thanks for sharing this wonderful phenomenon

 

[glycerine]

Wow.

 

[hewunch]

Thanks for sharing! I saw them in March, but they weren't dancing like that.

 

[Woodlvr]

Thanks Rick. Those lights are beautiful. I see a silhouette of a horse in purple in the last pic, or is it my wishful thinking?

 

[cnirenberg]

Those would make great desktop wallpaper if they were higher res! Just tried it with the first one and it lost all the detail......BUMMER!!!!

Great looking pictures!


Barney

Definitely fantastic pictures. I kept one of the purple hued ones as wallpaper. Very nice. Thanks for waking up early.....

 

[Rick P]

Thanks everyone I am really glad you enjoyed the pics! Sorry Woodluvr, we dont own a horse but the lights are like cloud gazing folks see all kinds of cool outlines in them.


The family and I are headed up the mountain for a hike/small game hunt, you folks enjoy your day no matter what it is you have going on.

 

[OOPS]

For those of us who never get to see them, these pictures really captured the natural beauty. Does this happen every night? What a light show!

Thanks for posting these photos. I too would like to see more when you get the chance.

 

[animefan]

Those are some gorgeous pictures.

 

[greasythumb]

love all the colors,something we never see in southern california.makes a nine background for computer..thank a bunch

 

[paintspill]

i have to get up there one of these days. no matter how many pictures i see it still look unreal. on my bucket list for sure

 

[markgum]

amazing. I agree with Russianwolf, about adding another reason to the list. Also just goes to prove that when the Sun is coming up, time to get up and see what wonders await..

 

[Jacko]

Wow, thanks for sharing.

 

[thewishman]

Thanks, Rick! Love 'em! Hope your hike was fun and successful.

 

[WoodWorkinthe530]

Fantastic shots! Thanks for letting us all have a look see.

My wife and I went to Fairbanks in Feb of 2006 just to catch the Northern Lights. We were there for six nights and had great shows four of them. I couldn't catch them with a camera nearly as well as you have.

Chris

 

[boxerman]

Awesome Thanks for showing them.

 

[randyrls]

Anyone who wants to see LOTS of photos of the Aurora can check out this web site.
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Scroll down the page about half way to "Aurora Gallery".

 

[Old Lar]

Great pictures Rick. Thanks for sharing them with us.

 

[Rick P]

I got several requests for high res pics. I'll be posting more tomarow, family day today. Well the uploader dosent like the high res versions.......let me see what I can do. For now I have to run we have a fairly long hike planned for today.

 

[Rick P]

For those of us who never get to see them, these pictures really captured the natural beauty. Does this happen every night? What a light show!

Thanks for posting these photos. I too would like to see more when you get the chance.

Not every night in fact last year they were strangely missing from our skies. The lights are triggered by sun spot activity and reach a peak every 11 years during the suns magnetic inversion.....this is the peak year! I expect to get lots of northern lights shots this winter. My son and I are thinking of spending all of Lynx trapping season in the bush living out of a wall tent, should be some awesome views several miles from any form of civilization in the mountain pass we like to trap. At the least we will be doing a lot more winter camping this year, thus increasing our chances of noticing that the lights were out. This display would have lit up the inside of the tent like a Pink Floyd concert!

 

[Rick P]

Several rerquests for this one so.....testing. Let me know if this suits your needs folks who requested it. PS started to rain and we have guests on the way from Anchorage..........been weeks since anyone bothered to do the trip in to our place.

 

[hilltopper46]

Thanks for posting these.