Purple Pillar
I wasn't really expecting the northern lights to be this active. It was a beautiful night for stargazing, and I was only planning to shoot the milky way, but I never got to that. A slight breeze disturbed the surface of the lake most of the night. But at 3AM it became perfectly calm and the surface of Lake DeSmet looked like glass. A long exposure from a camera always picks up more colors in the aurora than the human eye can see. Oftentimes only the color green is visible. But the purple pillar on the right was very noticeable and it hardly moved at all.
- Copyright
- Kevin Palmer
- Image Size
- 5009x3339 / 10.8MB
- Keywords
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2017, astronomy, astrophotography, aurora, aurora borealis, buffalo, color, colorful, dark, geomagnetic storm, green, hill, kevin palmer, lake desmet, may, night, nikon d750, north, northern lights, pillars, pink, purple, red, reflection, sky, space, spring, starry, stars, tokina 16-28mm f2.8, water, wyoming
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- Northern Lights, Wyoming, Night Sky
