'Neath Clouds And Northern Lights

On a windy February night, we waited for the skies to clear and the show to begin.
The farm buildings of Grenivík provided some small ground level lights, while the stars danced a duet with the #aurora. Even the approaching snow clouds couldn't hide the beauty completely.

Eyjafjörður in north-eastern #Iceland.

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#PPOD: This photograph, taken by astronaut Matthew Dominick while peering out a Dragon Endeavor window, shows red and green aurorae streaming by Dragon Freedom which was docked to the front of the International Space Station. The Sun is still at solar maximum, with numerous flares and coronal mass ejections causing gorgeous aurorae even at lower latitudes. The different colors indicate different altitudes above the Earth's surface. Credit: Matthew Dominick/NASA

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Ditched

Sometimes, the #aurora can take you by surprise.

We'd been sitting in a safe spot for hours, waiting for the chance of a display. The KP forecast was dropping, the air was freezing and it was getting towards midnight so we decided to head back to the hotel in Akureyri, northern #Iceland.

Halfway down the mountain, the sky started to dance. Which is how we came to be photographing the #NorthernLights from a roadside ditch!

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