Dancing Lights
One of the most beautiful effects of the Northern Lights is how they dance across the sky. You don’t get to see this in photographs, and video cameras can never focus on the movement as you need long exposure to capture the lights. But here we hope to give you a taste of what Aurora Borealis looks like in real life with time lapse camera shots. Enjoy!
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Tags: Arctic Circle, Aurora Borealis, Nature, Northern Lights, Norway, Polar Night, Season, Sing, video, winter
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That is soooo beautiful!! I think I’d get frostbite because I’d want to stay out all night just to watch the night sky light up.
Coool! Northern lights always remind of Phillip Pullman’s books now that I’ve read them – like a doorway to another world! *smile*
I’ll never forget the first time I saw them – I thought there was something very weird going on i the sky (had never even heard of them at the time – this was 29 years ago and I was just 19). When my then husband explained what they were, I was mesmerised.