Our family flat out missed the northern lights extravaganza last week. We tried but there was too much light here. I had lots of photos from our backyard to the northern sky but none of them showed anything. Oh well, I think there was just too much ambient light to show anything.
I launched my drone and I got some late sunset photos. The drone’s controller was squawking at me the whole time about not enough light, blah, blah, blah. I thought we were masters of our technology but it seems to have a mind of its own sometimes. So the above is the sky to our west.
And this is to the northwest. Waayyy too much light.
We have had lots of weather here. Here is a storm cloud to the east from our gym parking lot. Generally we don’t have to worry about the storm when it is to the east but we do worry about the people who are in its path.
After we went home I launched the drone. It was kind of windy and the drone controller was telling me to get it back because the wind is about to carry it off. That has only happened to me once and I had to do the mission abort thing. It worked it brought the drone back home back against a strong wind. It is almost panic inducing. Anyway, turns out that the storm under the clouds was just rain, no rotation, no damage. Which is good.
So I was hoping for some northern light photos. I saw lots on social media and I feel kind of left out. Some wags who also didn’t have any luck posted their plain pics with some colors obviously added. I thought that was funny the first couple hundred times I saw it.
I’m linking with Skywatch Friday.
…I didn’t see them either!
you were not the only one who did not see them
Beautiful.
I saw them (more accurately, my camera saw them), but had no idea what they were!!🤣
I didn´t get to see them either. Too much ambient light here too.
yup I saw loads of people sharing photos of it here too, mostly on FB. I didn’t get any though as I was working but oh well…
I didn’t see any northern lights although others here in Florida enjoyed it.
Still, your pictures turned out great.
Aurora Borealis is just a dream for us in Mumbai!
I had the same problem here, too much light, although we were able to capture the pinkish/purplish sky. Such a very exciting time.
Seems I slept through it. Many could see the colors only with their cameras, rather than with the human eye alone.
I didn’t see them either. Thought about driving out of town but I can’t see particularly well right now, so oncoming headlights would have been a big problem.
I didn’t see them, either! Clouded out but I think we would have had too much ambient light. Alana
A pesar de que no captaste las aurora boreales. Las imagenes son muy lindas. Te mando un beso.
Amazing pics
We had nothern lights here too, but I was sleeping… and my small old camera is not made for this job. We are both only for daylight.
Happy Pentecost