Showing posts with label northern lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label northern lights. Show all posts

24/02/2013

A cabin trip

Oh for fucks sake, it's almost a month since my last post. Not good, not good...
So in the spirit of being late, here's pics from a cabin trip I tagged along on some weeks ago.

Gorgeous weather, very little snow, one little ski trip where I skinned up and walked down... Evenings spent swing dancing and keeping the fires going. Ended up with +35 degrees celcius inside while the outside kept a snug -20 degrees.

Oh! And a stunning northern light popped up the second evening! Though by the time I scrambled in to get the camera, it had gone away. Doesn't matter, other trip participants managed to eternalize the moment.










The cabin: Vekvessætra....

....and the little toilet house

17/02/2012

New gear and Northern lights

Bought me some new camera gear a couple of weeks ago: a Sigma 18-200mm telelens, and I finally got myself a tripod. Ended up with an Induro Adventure AKP0 with a panorama head. Only took me a month or two to decide what to get. I may be good at spending money, but no one can say my purchases aren't well planned at least.



So, anyway, I recived my new stuff, only to let them rest and not really familiarize myself with any of it.  Yeah, I'm a real enthusiast...

The following Thursday however, the Dane comes slantering into the kitchen and says "oh, by the way, there's a northern light again tonight". Silence, then panic. Not just me, but everyone in my kitchen. Run to my room, get dressed sort of-ish, grab my tripod and my camera, ready to to take pictures of the northern lights.

I get outside, find myself a spot outside the reach of the streetlights, only to realise that I have no clue what goes where how on this tripod. Ending up spending half an hour fidgeting with the tripod, moving in and out of the streetlight because I had ofcourse forgotten to bring my headlamp. All the while glancing frantically up at the skies so that I at least experience this nights lights.

When I had finally got rigged up I only managed a couple of ok pics before the auroras disappeared. Who knows if I will get to see them again this year, aurora season being almost over and midnight sun times begin....

As always, my pictures, no stealing without asking for permission first.