The conditions are good! Clear skies and moderate particle stream from the sun, so my camera is set, my wool clothes are all ready. Tripod? Check! Extra battery? Check! Flash light? Check! All systems nominal. Go, no-go for northern lights! WE HAVE A GO FOR AURORA BOREALIS!
In the news today we saw that 45. million readers have seen the Facebook page for Visit Northern Norway – and yet again my friend Øystein Lunde Ingvaldsen lundeimages. com made the frontpage with one of his stunning photos, the very photo I got his permission to show here to the right! It is an absolute beauty of a northern lights shot! The photo is taken in Bø in Vesterålen (Boe in Vesteraalen) – the beautiful group of islands between Lofoten and the main land.
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45 million visits to Visit Northern Norway (Norwegian)

Northern lights? -straight up, please!
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12. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, Facebook, Friend's Achievements, From the archives, Geophysics, In the News right now, Long Exposure, Meteorology, Nature's Delight, Other Bloggers, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Physics, Science & Technology, Seasons, Travel | Tags: Aurora, Aurora Borealis, Aurora statistics, Battery, battery check, Camera, Clear conditions, Clear weather, Extra battery, facebook, Flashlight, Go, nature, No-go, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern, Northern Lights, Northern Norway, Particle flux, Particle stream, science, sun, Systems nominal, Tripod, Wool, Wool clothes | Leave a 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
My latest English poem. Can’t read the text? Just click the picture to enlarge!

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31. March 2012 | Categories: 2-summer, From the archives, Nature's Delight, Photo, Poem, Seasons | Tags: agleam, Beam, bridge, carved, Colours, dream, fairyland, flaming seem, gap, golden, golden stream, hard, light, Midnight, Midnight Sun, Night, Northern, Northern Norway, Northern sea, Norway, raging, real, rockface, screams, seem, Sky, soaring seagulls, softness, steady, The night, vastenss | Leave a comment