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The Flash Bang!

One of the two biggest flashes last night.

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.

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

Lighthouse – Light from the North and Friends

In relation to the previous two posts…

Lighthouse and friends

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

The Quick and The Slow – cranking out Northern Lights

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.

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

Partly cloudy – but still a few nice in “the bag”

I was hoping for clear, crisp weather and maybe a combined northern lights shots and a meteor from the Draconids – wich is the hot topic in tonight’s sky. I saw three really nice shooting stars, but ales, didn’t capture them. I would probably have caught some more, if it wasn’t for the clouds. I caught a few nice though! It was really the AHHHH!-moment of my Northern Lights watching career – but it was nice anyway.

At one point I managed to do a long exposure of Widerøe’s Flight WF855 (Dash 8-100) from Narvik taking off from Narvik Airport at 1010 pm (GMT+1). Funny how the landing lights and strobes made a nice pattern across the beautiful moonlit scene.

Widerøe's (Wideroe) flight WF855 taking off from Narvik Lufthavn 22:10 local time. Ankenes Lighthouse in the foreground. Narvik City in the background.

Widerøe’s (Wideroe) flight WF855 taking off from Narvik Lufthavn/Airport at 22:10 local time. Ankenes Lighthouse in the foreground. Narvik City in the background.

Tonights Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) reflected in the Ofoten Fjord with a couple of iron ore bulk carriers at anchor waiting for service.

8. October 2012 | Categories: 3-Autumn, Astronomy and Athmospheric Physics, General Information, Geophysics, Just for fun, Long Exposure, Nature's Delight, Photo, Photo - processed RAW, Photographic Art, Physics, Seasons | Tags: AHHHH!-moment, Ankenes, Beautiful moonlight, Clear weather, Clouds, Crisp weather, Dash8-100, Draconids, Flight WF855, Landing lights, Lighthouse, Meteor, Meteor shower, Narvik, nature, Nice, Nordlys, Nordlysbilleder, Nordslysbilder, Northern Lights, outdoors, Pattern, Sky, Strobe lights, transportation, travel, Widerøe | Leave a comment

Silent Night by the Fjord

Shot this composite last night. The growth of forest here on Ankenes is tremendous, but not many seems to care. Thus just popping out to get a shot of the beautiful scenery gets harder and harder due to obstruction of trees.

Anyway, was about to go to bed, when very calm water in Narvik harbor basin lured me with its beautiful reflections to set up my tripod and take a few shots. Unfortunately, a lot of the view is now totally obscured by the trees growing ever bigger around here.