Wed 19 Oct 2011
A day spent in Northwest Territories … here’s just the first half, because I took 1560 photos that day, so I am breaking it in two. No northern lights in this batch; you can all go home now.
Painted skies at dawn.
A seagull at the Mackenzie River ferry. Yep, they do have them even thousands of miles from the nearest sea.
Some yellow and some evergreens.
Mon 3 Oct 2011
and here we start three days of photos from Alberta and Northwest Territories. I flew into Edmonton for the weekend (Friday-Sunday) of September 9th, as that is one of two annual peaks for the northern lights.
did I see the northern lights? In the interest of maintaining suspense, I’m not going to say quite yet.
Sunset. Usually shooting directly into the sun is a bad idea. Sometimes it isn’t.
The northern lights. Yep, they were out. This is about as bright as they get – when the red, purple, and green mix together to form a band of white.
Directly overhead, spanning the entire sky.
I used the fisheye lens for nearly all of the aurora photos seen here.