Symphony

It's been such a long time since I last shared anything with you all, and I've missed it! Now that I'm almost done with school, I have some free time to begin posting here and on other sites again. I look forward to becoming part of this community again!

This past September I had the chance to photograph a Aurora Borealis display in northern Minnesota. It was a surreal experience . A buddy and I head out around 11:30pm to a lake northeast of Bemidji about twenty miles and within 5 minutes of getting in the car we could see it faintly on the horizon. Once we reached our destination we immersed ourselves in the green glow for over 3 hours. During the course of those 3 hours fish were jumping, owls were hooting and when the lights reached their peak at 1:30am a neighboring packs of wolves began to howl. By far one of the most amazing experiences to date, and the wolves made it that much better!

This image composed of one exposure and I cloned out a light from a cell phone tower on the tree line and the glow of a cabin on the distant shore. Since the northern lights reflected so strongly on the lake, very few stars reflected on the calm water, so I chose to remove them also. Lastly, I adjusted the white balance to remove a greenish/yellow cast.

Comments and Critiques are appreciated.

Benjamin

5D Mark II - 16-35mm @ 23mm
ISO 1600 - f/4 - 15 seconds