Northern Lights
Last night I drove over two hours to Talkeetna, AK. The lights weren't as good as the night before. Which made the over two hour drive back home seem even worse than it already was.
Amazing spectacular sky over Sutton, AK
Captured the Auroras last night at Eklutna Tailrace. The conditions at Tailrace weren't idea because of the wood stove smoke that was hanging around. I was still able to get a few shots once the wind picked up and blew the smoke away briefly.
The northern lights are a pretty amazing sight to see in person. To the naked eye they aren't as brillant due to humans poor night vision, they are still quite the sight to see. On this particular night, at a KP 6, they were bright enough that I didn't need a flashlight to see in the dark.
A beautiful night of firey auroras in south central Alaska. To get to this spot I had to walk through a pretty dark forest. This time of the year the danger of running into a bear is still pretty high. The reward of being down on the beach to see this was well worth the scary walk through the woods.
So much light in the darkness of night. The brillant glow of the auroras and the soft light coming from the milky way light the night sky over Talkeetna and Denali mountain.
One of my daughter's favorite lines from her favorite movie Frozen. "The sky's awake, so I'm awake". I think that line applies to the sky near Sutton on Thursday night.
The milky way and the auroras crossing paths along Eklutna Tailrace. I was lucky enough to arrive at this spot just as the milky way lined up with the city lights of Palmer.
Beach Bonfire 2
The small forest of Bird Point has been set ablaze with the neon fire of the auroras.
This shot was the end to my night on 2/27-2/28. It was around 2:20am and the Northern lights were not showing any signs of going away. As I was getting ready to get in my truck I took this one last shot to capture the signage and northern lights. The light haze to the left of the image is a combination of Plamer/Wasilla/ Anchorage, Eagle river lights polluting the night sky.
This is a 2 picture panoramic version of my last post. I am posting this one to show the scale of what I was lucky enough to see in person. The soft white glow on the left of the horizon is the city of Palmer. To the right of it is Butte mountain. I believe that the mountains along the right side of the horizon is Matanuska Peak. What looks like a field of white snow below the horizon is a frozen Knik river.
A last little bit of color at the end of the aurora show on Friday night. This shot was taken along the Knik River on January 4, 2019
The auroras lights the beach with its ghostly glow .
Taken on the night of 9/10/2018. This was just before the Aurora storm storm really took off. The tide was just starting to go out and the wind speed was around 5mph. This made the perfect condition for a great reflection.
This image was shot from the banks of Granite Creek, AK. It is a beautiful location that is just past Sutton, AK
The view of Knik River from Old Glenn Highway
Last shot of the night on 1/4/2019 at the Swimming Hole, AK
Norhtern lights as seen from the rocks of Bird Point, AK
STEVE made a surprise visit along side the Aurora. Making it very hard to decide on what I should shoot first. STEVE will usually hang around for about 30 minutes to an hour.
This image was shot from the banks of Granite Creek, AK. It is a beautiful location that is just past Sutton, AK
The entrance road to Eklutna Tailrace had a beautiful backdrop of northern lights and milky way.
Ribbon of color streaks across the sky. Spectacular night of aurora watching on the morning of 9/11
The end to a spectacular beginning of the aurora season. This was shot around 4am, but the aurora lasted for another hour or so. Unfortunately I was too tired and needed to go to bed.