Writing Retreat (5b — Aurora Borealis)

Posted on by Patrick
Panorama of last night's aurora, west to east

It was quite a night.

Aurora Borealis swirling above trees
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis swirling over the prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis behind the hydro lines
Aurora Borealis over a bluff of trees
Aurora Borealis over a bluff of trees
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over Lake Minnedosa
Aurora Borealis above an evergreen tree
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over Minnedosa
Aurora Borealis over trees; a particularly bright pillar has almost overwhelmed the camera's sensor
Aurora Borealis over trees
Aurora Borealis over trees
Aurora Borealis over a gravel road
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
Aurora Borealis over the sleeping prairie
see if you can spot where I wiped the dew off the lens

(I’m impressed how well that top panora­ma turned out; nor­mal­ly my panora­ma pro­gram balks at try­ing to stitch togeth­er pho­tos of the aurora.)

Series: Writing Retreat 2024

The entire series: Writ­ing Retreat 2024 (1); Writ­ing Retreat 2024 (2); Writ­ing Retreat 2024 (3); Writ­ing Retreat 2024 (4); Writ­ing Retreat (5a — Milky Way); Writ­ing Retreat (5b — Auro­ra Bore­alis); Writ­ing Retreat 2024: 6; Writ­ing Retreat 2024: 7; Writ­ing Retreat 2024: The End.

Inter­est­ed in prints of my pho­tos? Let me know, and we can work some­thing out.