Aurora lights up the night skies over the Inukshuk, with frozen Hudson Bay behind, in Churchill, Manitoba. 10 second exposure, f2.8, ISO 1000, canon 7d, 16-35 mm lens.
Things got pretty wild during the last weeks of polar bear season this year. Blinding blizzards lashed the region, dangerous wind-chills reached 50 below zero, and ice formed much earlier than normal in Hudson Bay, causing a premature drop in polar bear numbers. It was a trying period for polar bear viewers, but on several frigid nights solar storms sympathetically raged overhead, astounding residents and visitors alike, and took the edge off of an early freeze-up.
Purple coloration, resulting from a mixture of red and blue emissions from nitrogen molecules, is indicative of extremly intense auroras. I photographed this from the Tundra Lodge on the first night of a photography expedition. 6 sec exposure, f 2.8, ISO 1000
Golds, purples, yellows and greens are brighter in an image than in the human eye, and are helped by a little tweaking in Lightroom. A 5 second exposure captures definition in the curtains.
A strong, fast moving display. 5 second exposure, 1000 ISO, f2.8
Photographers working the display from the tundra lodge.
Jorge Peral is an artist and photographer who designs and makes the art on Canadian Currency. Maybe there will be aurora on the next Canadian 20 in the future!
Natural Habitat President Ben Bressler poses next to the Inukshuk behind town on the beach, an aurora display overhead.
Sisters Valerie and Nancy Smth burn the midnight oil and pose in front of the Inukshuk.
The Natural Habitat support team, Jeanette, Fanny and Lilian on the beach at night.
Churchill Nathab Opps team, Jeanette, Lilian, Darcy and Fanny at the Inukshuk.
This was a great warm up for the auroral action coming this February and March on the upcoming expeditions to see the Aurora!
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Love the shots Brad!!!!!