Aurora Over Grand Teton

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 13, 2012471 views22 comments

Imagine being out with the stars at 3am with the milky-way overhead and the faint glow of northern lights dancing in the distance as temperatures drop to a cool thirty-five degrees. Your in complete solitude and awe as the sound of howling wolves and faint echoes of bugling elk can be heard across the valley below. This was my experience while capturing this shot a few hours ago and it's moments like these which define my passion for nature photography.

Thanks for looking!

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22 comments

Comment posted by Karsten Wrobel on October 13, 2012 at 8:30 AM

crazy colour combination and great comp... very interesting and unique capture of the aurora imo

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on October 13, 2012 at 8:39 AM

God has created a wonderful canvas for us to see and capture. Well done and great story

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on October 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM

You're absolutely right. A God given and precious moment, and you recorded the visual part of it very well. Thanks for sharing!

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on October 13, 2012 at 10:27 AM

This is great, Drew. I enjoyed reading your thoughts and feeling while you were there making this image. Really nice!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Rebecka on October 13, 2012 at 10:38 AM

Amazing description of your time with the heavens, and an even more amazing capture. Congrats on this beautiful work.

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Comment posted by Ron Pullen on October 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Wonderful! You may also try a Pano crop.

Ron

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on October 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on October 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM

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Comment posted by Richard Olsen on October 13, 2012 at 12:08 PM

An amazing photograph Drew, and your description put me right there with you! Thanks for posting this, and congrats on a fine capture!!

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on October 13, 2012 at 3:47 PM

Beautiful color combination Drew. Amazing scene with a lot going on.

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Comment posted by Brad Strong on October 13, 2012 at 3:55 PM

Very beautiful. There is something in the image that looks like a right parenthesis. It is a ghost near the clouds on the right, very large from top to bottom, about the same brightness as the light rays. It doesn't look naturally occurring.

Thanks for sharing the experience.

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Comment posted by Tom Hilton on October 13, 2012 at 7:14 PM

Very well done...

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on October 13, 2012 at 8:32 PM

Wow!

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Comment posted by Youssef Ismail on October 13, 2012 at 8:53 PM

Wow! I hear and understand your sentiment. But would it be any less if the camera was not with you? Would your appreciation of nature be any less? I know for me it would not, in fact in some cases it makes me appreciate it even more.

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on October 13, 2012 at 8:54 PM

Wow is right! Speechless

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Comment posted by Drew M Wright on October 13, 2012 at 11:20 PM

Thanks for all your comments!

Youssef, the camera is definitely along for the ride but I find that photography is the best excuse yet to visit some of the most incredible places on the planet. Never easy pulling an all-nighter or getting up at 3am in early spring for sunrise but worth every minute as I'm sure you all know!

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Comment posted by Oleg Kuchorenko on October 14, 2012 at 7:03 AM

interesting color contrast.. polar and milky way in one shot... looks awesome !

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Comment posted by Ken Henke on October 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM

Yep, experiences like that all keep us going! Amazing colors and post processing work

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Comment posted by Drew M Wright on October 14, 2012 at 11:41 PM

Here's a timelapse I put together of the image above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax-KUlc8sBk

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Comment posted by Vlad Sadovsky on October 15, 2012 at 12:07 AM

What an interesting capture of all the sky colors, science fiction effect. Unique way of seeing the aurora.