I popped out a couple of days ago and captured this photo of our beloved companion in space. The old spellbinder and maker of romantic promises. The old natural satellite faithfully circling our home like a watch dog, gobbling up debris and preventing a lot of unpleasant collisions with Earth. This goddess Selene. Luna the treacherous – thought to have the power to turn people into luna-tics…
Whatever you wish to call her, she is beautiful, and still retaining “That ole Swiss Cheese Look”.
Full moon over Narvik
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1. November 2012 | Categories: 4-Winter, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, General Information, History, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Seasons | Tags: beautiful, Companion in Space, Debris, Goddess, Luna, Lunatics, romantic, Romantic promises, Selene, Spellbinder, Treacherous, Watch dog | Leave a comment
To round of a quiet night with practically no northern lights and some editing work on the aging computer – here is one of the big flashes from last night! Glad Wenche came out in time to see this! Better than fireworks – isn’t it!
One of the two biggest flashes last night.
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16. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Better, Better than Fireworks, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fireworks, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, outdoors, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | Leave a comment
In relation to the previous two posts…
Lighthouse and friends
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16. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Nature, Nature's Delight, Panorama, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Lighthouse, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, outdoors, people, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, technology, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | Leave a comment
I have a sensational old and slow computer. So cranking out Northern Lights photos is a slow and tedious process in sharp contrast to my camera, which is fast as lightning in comparison when it comes to process photos…
This is one more from yesterday in relation to my last post – see the Home-page.
Another one from the Ofoten Fjord last night.
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16. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Nature, Nature's Delight, Panorama, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, outdoors, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | Leave a comment
On the third night in a row I went out scouting for the Northern Lights yesterday. I had good company in Danielle and Kent Robin. Liv-Bente had prepared the grounds (if you’d like me to, I’ll explain this in a later post). Just in time for the show, Wenche came along with an exchange student, Ayan from Thailand and an old friend – Rune – and a friend of his – Cathrine – from Narvik Fotoklubb – The local photo club came to scout the skies as well. There were quite a few tripods and camera at one point, but it is always nice to trade tips and tricks in the very skilled and difficult art of taking good northern lights shots.
So what about the title on this post? – you might ask… Well, when there is nobody else out there chatting along, I can actually hear music when I see the northern lights flickering and meandering across the night sky. My good friend – the brilliant singer and thereminist – Amethyste plays along with the light in my mind. She has an angelical voice. I suppose it is simply and purely a question of associations between beautiful things in my life.
Northern Lights flickering above Narvik and Ankenes last night while Améthyste held a concert for my inner ear.
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15. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Facebook, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Music, Nature, Nature's Delight, Panorama, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Améthyste, Angelical, Angelical voice, Art, arts, Associations, Ayan, beautiful, Beauty, Camera, Cathrine, Chatting, Danielle, Fotoklubb, Good northern lights photographs, Kent Robin, Life, Liv-Bente, music, My life, Narvik, Narvik Fotoforening, nature, Nordland, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Northern Light Pictures, Northern Lights, Northern Lights photographs, Photo Club, photography, Rune, Scout, Scouting, Scouting the skies, Shots, Skilled, Thailand, Trade, Trade Tips, Trade tips and tricks, Tricks, Tripod, Wenche | 2 Comments
I am crazy busy today – but I just popped by my blog to show my readers an example of last night activity. The Kp-index was steadily around five, which at these latitudes is high (northern lights activity normally starts at Kp 2/3. Tonight there is a geomagnetic storm coming with an estimated strength of G1 (the scale goes from G0 – no activity to G5 where all hell breaks loose and satellites gets their curcuitboards fried and powergrids here on Earth fails).
Unfortunately there were strong winds and quite a bit of rain and partly cloudy yesterday. But still the build up to the storm was quite obvious in between the clouds!
Strong Auroral Activity is seen in between the Clouds last night.
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14. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, General Information, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Ankenes, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Cloud, Company, Danielle, Darkness, fjord, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, G0, G1, G2, G3, G4, G5, Geomagnetic, Geomagnetic Storm, Geomagnetic Storm G1, Geomagnetic Storm G2, Geomagnetic Storm G3, Geomagnetic Storm G4, Geomagnetic Storm G5, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, nature, Nordlys, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Partly cloudy, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photos, Physics, powergrids, science, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tonight, Tourist, travel, Veggen, weather, Yes | Leave a comment
Aurora borealis above the Ofoten Fjord with the mountain Veggen in the background as seen from Ankenes yesterday.
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13. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: 3-Autumn, Ankenes, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Company, Danielle, Darkness, fjord, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, General Information, Geophysics, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Long Exposure, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Meteorology, Narvik, Nature's Delight, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Photos, Physics, Science & Technology, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tourist, travel, Travel | Tags: Aaaah, Veggen, Yes | Leave a comment
Standing there in the darkness – jumping up and down like a little kid at Christmas – and shouting -Yes! and Aaaah!, I probably look quite silly for a grown man, but every occasion like yesterday is exactly like Christmas to me! The Aurora borealis – Northern Light is so awe-inspiring that I wish all the japanese, Korean and Chinese tourist here in Norway could see it! They really are memories for a lifetime. Last night Kp-index was 3 (2 and above means chances to see northern lights at these latitudes). Today the Kp is even higher, at 5 – so I am soooo hoping for equally crisp, clear skies and even bigger lights!
I managed to get great many shots yesterday. And I had company. Danielle came down to the water with her boyfriend and I helped her getting into the fine techniques of shooting Northern Lights photographs.
And another bonus last night was the swarms of beautiful meteorites. I belive it must have been the orionides that should be passing just these days. Although my camera was pointed in the wrong directions, when I got home, I found that actually three of my photos had captured these beautiful sights. My head was obviously pointing in the wrong direction at these points, as I didn’t see them until I started flipping through the shots.
Well, here is a tiny fraction of last night’s phenomenal photo shoot. Enjoy!
Northern Lights stretching all the way form to the North of Narvik and all the way to the South-West above Vestfjorden. To the left Ankenes, and to the right Veggen and Forratangen. In the center Kjeldebotn.
Strong meteor (shooting star) between the lighthouse in Ankenes and aurora.
Northern Lights above the Narvik peninsula last night
Northern Lights photographer Danielle catching the last of the show
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13. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Christmas, General Information, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photo - Summa cum Laude, Physics, Science & Technology, Travel | Tags: Aaaah, Ankenes, Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Awe-inspiring, Awesome, beautiful, Beautiful sights, Boyfriend, Catching, Chinese, christmas, Company, Danielle, Darkness, Flipping, Flipping through photos, Forratangen, Fraction, Grown man, Japanese, Jumping, Kid, Kid at Christmas, Kjeldebotn, Korean, Kp, Kp-index, Lifetime, light, Memories, Memories for a Lifetime, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights photographs, Northern Norway, Norway, Occasion, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Orionids, Passing, Phenomenal photo shoot, Photos, Shooting star, Shouting, Show, Silly, Techniques, Tourist, travel, Veggen, Yes | Leave a comment
Incidentally exactly one year ago I was also shooting Aurora Borealis – Northern Lights photos. I recall the conditions were somewhat better than today, but still, I am not complaining. I shot a few, but this was – if not the best – the most interesting because of the perspective. The aurora is partly obscured by a cloud.
Aurora borealis is formed some 80 – 3-400 km above Earth Surface by charged particles from the sun that excites atoms in the ionosphere. When the electrons in the excited atoms falls back again to lower states of energy, they release the energy, from the collision with the particle from the sun, in the form of a photon which is the light waves/particles that we observe as light on our retina.
Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis tonight above Ankenes
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1. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Amazing Natural Phenomenon, Ankenes, Ankenesstrand, Aurora Borealis, beautiful, Beautiful Sky, Charged particles, Earth Surface, electrons, Energy, Ionosphere, light, light waves, Narvik, Nordland, Northern Lights, Northern Norway, Norway, Particle, particles, Photon, retina, science, sun | Leave a comment
Took this photo today of the Roasme Mountain range, and winter is just 1,000 meters away from us now. Soon we’ll be engulfed by the magic of snow..!
Winter is coming – the snow coveres mountain peaks gets whiter by the day
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23. September 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, General Information, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology | Tags: 000 meters, 1, Ankenes, Autumn, beautiful, Beautiful Landscape, Beautiful Sky, Iron Ore Carrier in port, Narvik, Narvik City, Narvik Harbor, Natures Delight, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, photography, RAW, Roasme, Roasme plataeu, Sky, snow, The Magic of Snow, weather, winter, Winter is coming, winter scene | Leave a comment
I totally fell in love with this photo by taniajessicasmith.wordpress.com Alkali Lake, Bolivia. I hope you enjoy it too. Big thanks to Tania for letting me re-blog this beautiful landscape!
Alkali Lake, Bolivia
via Alkali Lake, Bolivia.
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15. April 2012 | Categories: Nature's Delight, Other Bloggers | Tags: Alkali, Alkali Lake, beautiful, Beautiful Landscape, Beautiful Sky, Bolivia | 1 Comment
The night is getting lighter and soon the Midnight Sun will be shining – thus making it impossible to see the spectacular phenomenon – Northern Lights (Aurora borealis). But still the night is dark enough to se the occasional Northern Lights. Although I am too busy at the moment to spend hours out in the cold gazing for this beautiful light show – yesterday I just had to.
I only shoot photos in RAW-mode. Hence it takes a lot of hard, manual labor to “develop” them into JPEGs suitable for showing here. And there it is again time… Well, I’ve processed one with the planet Venus shining brightly through the vail of the Northern Lights above the Ofoten Fjord.
Northern Lights yesterday - Venus is shining through the vail of Northern Lights
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3. April 2012 | Categories: 1-Spring, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Geophysics, Long Exposure, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Seasons | Tags: Aurora, Aurora Borealis, beautiful, Cold, Dark, Develop, JPEG, JPG, Light Show, Lighter Nights, Midnight Sun, Night, Northern, Northern Lights, Ofoten, Ofoten Fjord, Phenomenon, Planet, Planet Venus, RAW, RAW-mode, Shining, Spectacular, Spectacular Phenomenon, Vail, Venus | Leave a comment
A fantastic piece of music written by the very, very young composer Richard Birdsall and winner of the Gary Garriton Contest. The conductor becomes airborne at the end! A brilliant piece of music well worth seeing!
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24. March 2012 | Categories: Music, Music Videos by others | Tags: beautiful, concert, czech philharmonic, dramatic, garritan contest, knight, magic, music, richard birdsall, romantic | Leave a comment
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