Riverdance

Been a while since my last post here...

This one is from early january. I had been been out countless times and returned with nothing. Nada...
But that`s part of the game, so i just keep going. I gave it another try, parked my car on a remote road in the forest and put on my skiis.
My headlamp was dead once again, so i only had a small flashlight to help me in the dark. There was about 50cm (20 inches) of snow out there. All pure powder...so i was struggling like crazy, but i tried to think positive. Good training and so on...

The aurora was present all the time. Not blazing, just a green bright band in the sky above me. I made my way down to a section of a river that had partly open water. Took some nice shots and kept going further into the woods.
The next hour i spent struggling in the deep snow. What a waste of time...didnt find a single decent place to set up. But i had a feeling things would explode in the sky so i headed back to the river. I was half dead when i reached it again...
I kept going further downstream, found a spot that looked promising in the dark and balanced my way out in the river.
I jumped from rock to rock until i was midstream, set up my composition and then i was ready...

Half an hour later theres still not any activity worth shooting. A few minutes later i see a tiny, bright & green band start moving really fast across the sky. All of the sudden the entire sky explodes.
The dark landscape is transformed into a green wonderland. My heart beats like crazy as i look at the aurora move insanely fast across the sky. It moved from the left of the frame to the right within a second. It was crazy...
Is it really this green, you may ask...it sure as hell is. It was a lot greener than the picture shows. I could literally see the river turn into a nuclear green fluid...it was so damn fascinating.

I threw away my gloves, pushed the remote and after exposing i could see that this one looked pretty good. A minute later the activity was back to normal.
Sometimes it pays off to be patient and spend 45 mins midstream in -20 degrees. When i looked again for my gloves i realized i had thrown them in the river...5 minutes later they were 2 solid iceblocks :-)

Hope everyone is doing good...

Cheers!

-Arild-