One-winged angel


Green ribbons of aurorae arc across the upper two-third of the image, looking like a single wing of an angel (or perhaps the flow of the lifestream from a certain Japanese RPG). Below is a fjord, with sea flanked by snow-covered mountain slopes. The auroral light and light from small villages reflects off the snow.

Marty Weintraub, from Duluth, Minnesota

An aurora arcs over a fjord on the Norwegian island of Senja, roughly 3° north of the Arctic Circle, lighting up the villages of Bergsbotn and Indregård. This 1.6-second exposure was taken with a Sony a7 IV mirrorless camera and a 14 mm lens at f/1.8 and ISO 2500.