Aurora on canvas

WOW, when I started to read your description, my jaw dropped….”PERTH”...and then I read Scotland…ha!
Fantastic shot.

Awesome shot!

Beautiful!! I didn’t know you could see them from Scotland… did you add the stars or were you clever enough to get them when you took the photo?

Thanks folks.

georgiegirl: One does not go around faking astrophotography.

this is stunning, why can I not see this from West Lothian LOL

AMAZING BEAUTY !

beautiful!! just beautiful!!

Wow! I’ve always wanted to see such a rare natural phenomenon. Beautifully captured and framed.

Great shot.

I’ve seen the aurora borrealis many times in Soctland, in Alaska, even in Rochester, New York. The best is in my homeland, Scotland and you have captured it well. And, the capture of the Big Dipper is awesome.

Great photo, have never seen the northern lights but hopefully this will change in Feb. when I go to Iceland.

My son reckoned he has seen the Northern lights here in Peeblesshire and I didn’t believe him!

beautiful , you were very lucky to capture this phenomena

Wow, this is fantastic. Very impressive capture.

Dream like

another great sky shot! the sharpness of the stars is outstanding. how did you do it? i am luckly where i live in the mountains of NH, USA we get the lights but I have not been able to catch them at all, soooo care to share your photo knowledge?

Thanks all :)

Roddy: Good luck in February :)

Roslyn: I use SpaceWeather amongst other sites to keep an eye out for aurora potential (there’s a useful link from there to NOAA down the left side of the page). According to the exif data on my original version of this aurora photo , it was taken thus:
Model: NIKON D70.
Shutter-speed: 13.000s
Aperture: f/4.000
ISO rating: 800
Timestamp: 2005:01:21 23:34:22.
Focal length: 18.000mm

In practice up to 30s is necessary, obviously almost as wide an aperture as you can get.

Now that’s a real capture!!!!Phenomenal work!

Thanks PigleT, It’s interesting to see you captured this with aperture f/4 and a shutter speed of just 13secs. From what I was reading I was a bit worried about my f/2.8. You’ve given me hope, now just got to wish for clear skies!

so pretty, that is one of my goals, to go see and take some pics. great shot.

Great shot. Reading your description of how you captured it has helped me to understand how it’s done. Thanks.

Wonderful sight and capture…

Beautiful photo!

gorgeous !

Very nice.

Incredible! I’d love to see this in real life one day.

beautiful image… I so want to see an auroural display one day… I guess that’s the good thing about living in a colder climate…..

wow, i’m so jealous. excellent work :o)

Amazing! This is something we southerners can only dream about!

Great capture

ooohhh what a pretty pretty picture to wake up to this am on the front page :D

Thanks mrbpaints, Holly and Roslyn :) Yeah, bit of an honour I think :)

hmm. Want more aurorae now :)

Wonderful!
Envy!
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magical!

well done!

Magnificent capture of what we call here in Canada, Northern Lights! Congratgs on making homepage!

Thanks jesika, Linda, dingysailor1 and Joanne :)

beautiful capture!

amazing as always!

WOW-this is great!
Sharon

gorgeous!

wow very beautiful!!!!

Stunning…

I would love to see one of those someday in person! Great capture.

wow how stunning is this, lucky you!!
congrats on home page!!

Congrats on making homepage feature again! Well deserved!

WOW! its sooo beautiful!
i just got home from alaska but missed out on seeing some aurora lights because it was summer there!
excellent shot!

I love the northern lights such a pretty sight, didn’t think we got them down under. :)

Congratulations on having this fine work Featured on the RedBubble HomePage! 14 July 2008

WOW! WOW! WOW! (I’m not usually comment-challenged!)

Beautiful image and so nice to have the technical information to understand how you got this! Congrats on home page!

Thanks for an amazing picture.

........and kidnapped by aliens? what an amazing universe we inhabit, huh? truly a beautiful image. I hope one day to experience this in reality.

its lovely and i do know you scan see the northern lights in scotland but i have never been lucky enough

feels so good..brought back memories of witnessing the lights in Iceland :)

Incedible Image..never kew Scotland had Aurora…this is gorgeous…what a sight…wow..well done.

Wow, thanks to all for your comments and faves. It’s made my morning to see this on the homepage (again, as Joanne noticed!).

Simply astounding

brilliant!! congratulations!!
:))))

WOW!! That is stunning. Great capture

Magical shot…............really has the wow factor.

oh WOW! I would so love to see this!
I live a few hours south of Perth (in Western Australia) and have only twice in my life seen the Aurora Australis….(southern lights)..
neither time had a camera!
I live in hope of seeing them again…..
This is indeed beautiful!

you’ve captured a magical moment indeed ~ and so well ~ truly thank you for posting ~ instant fav xxx

Thanks Itruskett, Wendy Slee and LindaR – glad you all like it!

An amazing capture ! Stunning !

thats amazing,,,,,beautiful

Thats one very special shot.

Thanks reflector, Sean and kevin :)

Wow. This is a fantastic image.

What a stunning capture. Very well taken. AWESOME

Thanks Roslyn and Cherished :)

Beautiful capture….. middle of nowhere pays off! ;) :)

FAB!!! Never seen anything like that in all my life Very Special Image Well done T afor comments Frank

Cosmic… Hx

It is very beautiful!