The Gathering by OleHenrikSkjelstad

Last evening's aurora activity. I am afraid this one also works best on black. via 500px http://bit.ly/1i7Ymt9

For Jeff by ArturStanisz

!Please view on black to appreciate the details! I took this photo one night near my campsite on Turner Glacier located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. The mountain visible on the photo remained unnamed for a long time as I had problems identifying it. Only recently, I was able to find out its name: Loki Mountain. From the moment that I stepped on the Turner Glacier this mountain caught my attention. At first I only saw its apex. Then, as I was hiking through the glacier, the mountain was growing slowly showing more and more of its shape. It took many hours before I could see its entire face. Even though on this photo it might appear small, in reality Loki Mountain is a granite pyramid that is almost 1000 metres high. I am not exactly sure why, but during these few days that I spent near it, a lot of good light was happening around this mountain. The night I took this photo was no exception. The aurora was dancing above the peak as if it had some sort of a magnetic power. The crack featured in the foreground is an actual crevasse. I also had a chance to explore and photograph it from the inside. While I was fighting with cold weather and strong winds on Baffin Island a fellow photographer, Jeff Swanson was battling the biggest fight. Unfortunately, he lost it. So here it is for you Jeff Swanson ((http://bit.ly/1Esn55O). For all willing to help/donate for the cause , please visit this site: Melanoma Research Foundation http://bit.ly/1hqNtlP via 500px http://bit.ly/1Q4C7zW

The Cross by OleHenrikSkjelstad

I am sorry for uploading the same image again, but that first version was too intense and a tad over-saturated. via 500px http://bit.ly/1TLCLrM

[ gimsøy light ] by DERYK1968

Looks much better on black! Check out our upcoming phototrip and workshop to Lofoten Islands in northern Norway >>> www.lofoten.tours via 500px http://bit.ly/1IQdT6L

Green Dawn by AlessioAndreani

Join me and Francesco Gola for an amazing photo travel: Photo tour in Brittany You can follow me on Facebook Contact me here Stokksnes is one of the most popular destination in Iceland, you can easily figure out why. I waited a lot for the Northern Lights, but they didn't show up properly, only some green in far distance, but in landscape photography you have to deal with nature (and i'm not that kind of guy that copy and paste sky from other shots..) so i tried to capture the atmosphere of the moment. Best viewed in black! via 500px http://bit.ly/1I5MIWh

Nen Cenedril by AmanAnuraj

This was from the first night of camping in the Ogilvie Mountains in Tombstone Territorial Park. We were a bit off with fall colors but got above average auroras. And hey people, it didn't even take months between edits! I'm fairly critical of my own work I'd like to think, but I daresay this one came out looking reasonably decent. (Hopefully this means my logjam of editing is finally over and I'll have some good photos up in the coming days!) via 500px http://500px.com/photo/107195447

Baptized in Red by OleHenrikSkjelstad

It wasn't this I expected when the aurora forecast predicted northern lights last week - deep red in all its splendor. A blend of two exposures. Iso 6400 and 30 secs for the sky and water. Iso 3200 and 100 secs for the ground. via 500px http://500px.com/photo/106748625

Aether by whuang

For years I have talked about heading north to finally seeing and shooting the aurora. With the sun cycle at solar max, I finally made the trip out to Iceland in hopes of chasing the aurora. Winters in the North Atlantic are unpredictable with frequent storms and hurricane-like winds. After weather some tough weather, we were fortunate enough to enjoy a clear night that coincided with the impact of high speed solar winds. Sure enough, the aurora show began as we ate dinner. Itching to get into the action we scarfed down our food in record fashion and let the night of fun begin. I really wanted to capture a composition that included a foreground, midground, and enough sky to show the expanse of the aurora. I spotted this small area of the stream that had rather still water and made for a great reflection. Shortly after setting up a burst of aurora streaked across my frame creating a lightning bolt shaped green pattern. I was breathless seeing how bright the aurora became. Overhead the aurora danced and twinkled like fireworks. Surely enough it was a night to remember and if it weren't for the long day I would have stayed up all night. via 500px http://500px.com/photo/104882203

Colour Explosion by HougaardMalan

One of the greatest prospects of visiting any far Northern country is the opportunity to witness the Northern Lights. I was almost guaranteed to see and shoot it on my trip, as I had a full 20 nights there. Surely enough, the forecast promised level 5 Aurora activity (very strong) for my first night. After running around Reykjavik to get microspikes and thermal boots, I headed to a nearby lake that a friend told me of. As night fell, I could already see streaks of green above the street lights of the capital. I went to the lake feeling inspired, but upon getting there I realised that I don't know the place, the full moon is out, I've been travelling for 48 hours and it's -12 degrees, by far the coldest I've ever experienced. I enjoyed simply witnessing it and went to bed. Then, as Murphy would have it, the Northern Lights remained dormant for a full 17 days. The last few days of my trip were dreary and unlucky as the clouds always did just the wrong thing. Finally, on my 2nd-last night, the Aurora forecast showed level 4 activity and the weather forecast promised clear skies. The display started just as darkness fell, slowly and with plenty of cloud cover. I was hoping for something much better and between the clouds, a weak display and a temperature of -9 degrees, I was almost ready to give up. Like a sign from the gods, the sky suddenly exploded with light, shapes and colour. The dark night turned into a green day as the Aurora cast enough light to make everything clearly visible on a moonless night. My heart pounded with pure joy as the streaks of green, purple and red changed shape and colour. It was hands down, by far, without a shadow of a doubt the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen. To see more of my Iceland images, visit my Website. via 500px http://500px.com/photo/104324039

Aurora Storm, March 17, 2015 by adamhillstudios

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Ifjord by tommyeliassen

Location: Ifjord, Finnmark, Norway via 500px http://bit.ly/18YOrl0

Aurora by nikonboy

Aurora above an abandoned barn in Central Alberta. via 500px http://bit.ly/18K9YPa

Cold Christmas Quicksilt Clover Crystal Cave II by JohnathanEsper

"Cold Christmas Quicksilt Clover Crystal Cave" Version II ......this one's just a composite of 4 images manually blended for focus and exposure. This image represents the fulfillment of a long time photographic goal of mine to photograph the aurora borealis through an ice cave. There's a crazy story behind this image. I was so tired of only doing 'easy' shots with my big 12-client photo groups that I was determined to get this unique shot no matter what. I was trying for weeks to get to this ice cave on a night with strong auroras. One week in December was terrible weather and strong winds and we had to shelter in place in Hof for a few days. Then finally the weather cleared and auroras were forecasted and as I started up my vehicle in the Jokulsarlon parking lot to drive to the ice cave via 4x4 road, my clutch went on the car, and I had to get it towed to Hofn, were it sat for a couple weeks while I was leading other photo tours in Iceland. I then had a 2 day window between two tours I was leading, from 23-25 December over Christmas. I took an 8 hour bus out to Hofn arriving at night, but I had prearranged for keys to be left in my unlocked car. Unfortunately, a few weeks before this, I had my car repainted, and in the process they took off the doors and then re-attached a side door light doing me a favour, but since the strong Icelandic winds blow open my car doors and bend the hinges, the door doesn't close easily and the mechanic left the light on in the car and drained the battery dead. After going around town and having locals call up the mechanic at home, he came out and gave me a jumpstart. I drove out to Vestrahorn and slept in my car that night, planning on going to the ice cave the next day on 24 December. But in the morning when I awoke my battery was again dead, so I spent the whole morning walking to a nearby farm and bothering him on this this very family-oriented holiday in Iceland. $40 for a jumpstart was the going price, ouch! I was finally on my way to the ice cave. But this week was much snowier than normal, and the 4x4 track to the glacier was covered in pretty deep snow with rutted tracks from the other superjeeps with monster tires that go the cave daily (except over Christmas of course). So, I put my faith in my beloved "Big Bad Brown Betty" vehicle, with it's normal sized 4wd tires, and hoped I wouldn't get stuck. I was bouncing all over the place, bottoming out in the deep ruts, and after a couple kilometers, grounded to a halt, completely stuck. The crusty snow was stranding my car in the center without weight on the wheels. I took out my ice axe (I had no shovel), and spent about 3 hours trying to chop out the snow from under the car, but I was really stuck. So, with night falling, I abandoned my car and hiked for 2 more hours to the ice cave, figuring I'd worry about my car on Christmas day. I carried my sleeping bag and camera gear. When I got the cave, no auroras were out yet, so I went exploring to the back recesses of the cave where no one else had been before. In the dark in the ice cave, I couldn't see so well, and was crawling across some sheets of ice, when the ice started breaking up around me. Then I started quickly sinking into extremely soft glacial silt mud, just like quicksand, nearly up to my waist in a matter of seconds. It was very scary, just as if you had fallen through thin ice on a lake. Trying to walk out of it wasn't an option as I kept sinking. When I tried to grab and push myself up onto the ice sheets around me, they all broke up and crumbled around me. I was really scared, and had the terrible feeling of what it would be like to die by suffocation in quick-silt. So I thought quickly about what to do if you fall through lake ice, and tried the same technique of rolling onto my side, and rolling up onto the thin ice covering the glacial silt quicksand, to distribute my weight. This thankfully worked, and I slid and crawled back to stable snow, but in the process I was covered head to toe in cold wet mud. So I had to take off my outer layers and my down coat, and just then the auroras started showing very strongly through the ice cave roof skylight. So for the next 3 hours I was using two cameras to photograph the auroras through the ice cave roof. One camera for a time-lapse sequence, one camera exposure and focus bracketed for panoramas to obtain wider field of view than even my 14mm lens gave me. Shivering cold, probably mildly hypothermic, I kept on photographing. When my batteries died, I crawled into my sleeping bag in the open air under the ice cave, but there was a cold wind blowing through the cave all night so I never really warmed up. Next morning I was very cold still but the thing you have to do is just start moving, so I left my sleeping bag and tripod behind in the cave (my ice cave guide friends could pick it up for me the next day I figured, since I didn't want to carry it 2 hours back to the car), and started hiking back to the car. I was pretty thirsty, and found some running water under the snow in one place. After a couple more hours trying to futilely dig my car out, on Christmas day afternoon a big group of people I know from Hali guesthouse came by in a truck, and they pushed me out. I drove back on Christmas to Reykjavik, and met my tour group the next morning at 6am at the airport. End of story! via 500px http://bit.ly/15H9qYd