Aurora at Soredalen, Oltedal

An aurora event during a night drive on a whim hunting Milkyway.

Esjeberg, Denmark on a wet wet wet week in October

After being in Stavanger for almost 4 years now , we finally found the perfect week to visit family in Esjeberg, Denmark ... the October schoolbreak. A swift half day later we reached our destination just after midnight, driving all the way  from Stavanger to Kristiansand, hopping on the Colorline ferry across the North Sea to arrive Hirsthals an hour or so after sundown. Three hours driving in the dark Danish highway later we made our way into sleepy Esjeberg.

Luckily we had one full day of sun at Legoland near Billund, the rest of the week was rain, fog and more wetness. It's good to catch up with family though, lounging at home chomping on home cooked food and reliving childhood stories from home. It was good for the kids to hangout with the cousins, cooped up in the house all week.

Milkyway from Hytte 45, Fidgeland

Aurora in Hundvag 08th Sep 2015

This almost 5 day aurora event took place during the middle of the week when I had some mobility issues (the old right leg again) and only managed to capture the events in and arond the house. These were pictures taken at a spot by the coast 5 mins away from home. The leg was well wrapped up, I limped over in the cover of darkness.

Hytte 48 our weekend home in Fidjeland and Milkyway

Superb Milkyway Season so far ...

My first high altitude aurora on Lysesheia at 940m elevation

As far as Norwegian mountain standards are concerned, 940m elevation isnt exactly stupendous in height but considered high enough around Rogaland. In these parts 1400+m is probably considered high altitude.

Nevertheless, it's the closest high elevation location with a parking lot less tha 10m from our chosen shooting location. Pretty high enough ... no trekking uphill is involved in any sense of the word.

The aurora came around just after 1am rather unexpectedly as we were excitedly photography Milkway as it made it's appearance in and out of the passing clouds. Our main objective was to capture Milkyway in it's glorious autumn finery. And we captured Aurora to boot ... what more can you asked for?

We were so stoked with the occurence that we went out again the following night ... big ear to ear grin!