I never imagined that the northern lights would be this impressive.
A few years ago I visited Iceland with a few friends. I had in the back of my mind that the only thing I cared about seeing, was the northern lights.
I didn't care if I had to stay up all night every night, I was going to drive around until I was able to experience them.. With some stroke of huge luck, we saw them on the first night. The initial displays were quite slow and tame, but still blew us away. Later in the night, we witnessed the most incredible display that I have ever seen. One minute you catch a glimpse of something in the sky, and you pull over hoping to see the lights. In as little as 30 seconds you can go from a clear sky, to views like above.
I cannot find the words to explain just how incredible it is to see the lights dancing overhead, slowly moving and twisting as they change. For us they would last a few minutes at a time, then disappear very quickly.
The thing with photography is that it often distorts reality and things look more impressive than they are. Not with the northern lights, the above video is how we saw it. Yet in reality, it's about 1000x more impressive..
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