Feb 22

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012 

I had another opportunity to head out shooting the aurora borealis this week and this time, rather than being just green bands as we saw during Week 4 of my project 52, Mother Nature put on an unforgetable light show for us.  We had quite a turnout of photographers from the Manitoba Foto Friends join us for this excursion. We headed out to Sandy Bay in the Grand Beach Provincial Park with a total of 8 photogs spread out over Lake Winnipeg (along the shoreline) taking in the show.  The swirling lights started up early in the evening (around 9 PM) which is quite a bit earlier than usual and they lasted on and off until about 1 AM when they faded away. Despite some difficulties getting all our vehicles out of the snowy parking area at the end, it was a fantastic night!

The swirls and textures we were able to capture:

The amount of red this time around was stunning!

And if you looked straight up, they started to take on some really interesting shapes.  I call this one my baby alien.  :)