The bewitching display of the Aurora Borealis or the Northern Lights danced with a lightness through the skies. We’d set off from Tromsø (Latitude:69° 38′ 57.1369″. Longitude:18° 57′ 19.1657), Norway in the late evening hoping that the we’d be lucky to find the ‘lights’.
Hell, it was cold: -14*C but there we were well bundled up in layers and finally after three hours of driving, we came to an open area, an iced over lake where we were being treated to a magnificent show of nature’s natural alchemy. An ethereal airiness, whispy trails gathered into waves which flickered and glowed. It was so stunningly beautiful.
What causes all this energy? “When charged particles from the sun strike atoms in Earth’s atmosphere, they cause electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they release a photon: light. This process creates the beautiful aurora, or northern lights.”earthsky.org
WPC: Evanescent
Nature on the Edge 
Stunning!
This is so amazing
Thanks Liz! Great photos!
Lucky you! we have never managed to see this phenomenon – and we have tried many times…Beautiful shots!
this photos are so wonderful because many times the colors are photographed with out anything to ground them.. the trees really help me understand the way they move, their altitude… beautiful.
Stunning photos, Liz. The deep cold is the one downside to viewing this phenomenon!
Thank you so much for sharing. I would love to witness this in person!
Bewitching indeed, and perfect for the theme of this week’s challenge too. Exquisite, though hard to imagine such cold!
Awesome! I can’t imagine what -14 would feel like!
mystical, magical, ephemeral!
There are no words to adequately describe that spectacular sight and experience, but your images are truly beautiful, thank you for sharing them.
Marvelous. I’ve only seen them once and never like this. Thanks.
WOW. Incredible. I’ve only had the chance to see them at a huge distance (from New Hampshire ) to be correct. As such, they were just a green luminescent smudge in the night sky.
Nature’s most extraordibary light show! Though you were lucky to catch a ‘smudge’ so far south in New Hanshire.
Superb!! I’m so happy that you had the chance to see the Northern Lights, Liz. Wonderful images and memories to bring back home.
Thanks Dina. That’s a highlight of a lifetime 🙂 the northern lights and staying at an ice hotel; dog sledding. It was surreal 🙂 and a landscape to savour with it’s snow white purity and the dancing lights. Your country is land of so many delights.
Many years ago, like the late 1940s, my father took me outside one evening to view an Aurora Australis. It’s a sight I have never forgotten, and which I have never again experienced.
There are no words to adequately describe that spectacular sight and experience, but your images are truly beautiful, thank you for sharing them.
Maureen in Queensland
Magnificent… Simple magnificent….,😍
Thank you!
Your welcome…
its stunning .hope to witness it some day
Hope you get your wish, Madhu. It’s an experience of a lifetime / such ethereal beauty – quite the most spellbinding of wonders.
ya i can imagine! its in my bucket list 🙂