It was a Sunday night around six p.m and after seeing others awesome aurora shots and the constant posts of others on a Facebook photography group that were planning to head out I managed to convince myself that I can sleep some other time and the coffee at work will help me through the tired Monday after.
After a quick phone call to Karen and me throwing together some warm clothes and the camera gear we were off on another adventure for the night, and the initial plan was looking good with a spot I knew of at Lake Ellesmere which would of been fantastic with the next to no wind forecast, but it was not to be as we got closer the fog got thicker so we thought and arriving at the lake with another two cars already there which I had guessed we might find a few others out.
The extra people were no problem as we were all there for the same reason of taking some snaps of the aurora, but the big problem is we could not see ten metres in front of us with the fog being so thick which put a bit of a dampener to the plan, luckily we overhead the other people there talking about heading up gebbies pass so we headed off that way. The fog had another plan of its own with us being only able to see very little in front of us in a few spots on the road so it was slow going to get through it.
Once we made our way back to a main road there was a constant stream of traffic which I wasn’t expecting so it made for a bit of a mission making it up the hill and finding a quiet spot as cars were lining the road and I felt bad as the headlights would have been ruining all those pictures.
But at last we made it to a decent spot and started snapping and the below are some of the better ones, the pictures speak for themselves.
Quite a few of the exposures were affected by the mass amount of cars on the road also looking for that perfect spot with a prime example below with the brake lights creating a big lens flare which I kind of like, not as a great photo but a reminder of the amount of people around and part of the adventure of waiting for a gap long enough when no cars were coming and trying to get a twenty to thirty second exposure.
