My email and Facebook feed were crowded with news about this evening’s solar storm and how we could expect some of the best Northern Lights in over a decade. Yeah, right. Whenever someone says that it gets completely overcast and I am SOL.
I got my gear ready to go anyhow and headed out just after midnight. It didn’t take long for the show to start and the clouds weren’t as bad as originally feared. I sat on an approach on the side of Hwy 817 about ten minutes north of Strathmore, Alberta, and worked the lights with my R5 and a Tokina 11-16mm lens as that was the widest lens in my bag.
AB, 2024-04-11
I had intended to take my 9mm manual RF lens (I think it is TTArtisans), but accidentally grabbed the 12mm fisheye. Whoops. The first thing I did when I got home was put the correct lens in the bag as the word is the lights will be even better this evening/morning when the solar storm peaks.
Strathmore, AB, 2024-04-11
Strathmore, AB, 2024-04-11
I haven’t seen this much purple in the aurora since I was a small kid, so I was thrilled with this morning’s images. I won’t feel bad if I get nothing tonight because this is the best luck I have had with the Northern Lights in over a decade. I’m chuffed that I got to go out and experience and photograph them.
Life can be pretty good sometimes.
Shot with my Canon EOS R5 and a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 AT-X Pro DX left to me by Ray.
