Showing posts with label Northern Lights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northern Lights. Show all posts

Thursday, May 31, 2018

lights in silence


Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Northern Lights...  Numbers rising
With restless steps I walked alone
to that beach to be alone
I wished I could turn off that old  street lamp
I turned my camera to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of Auroras light
That split the night
a flash of green in silence
And in the peaceful  light I saw
Ten thousand colors, maybe more
Nature  talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
Nature writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools, said I, you do not know
MoonLight  like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
Auroras faded, in silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the beauty that God made
And the sky  flashed out til morning
In the beauty that it was forming
And the sign said, the colors of heaven are written on the night time walls
as nature calls
we stood and watched, in silence

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Northern Lights Nov 7

They started off slow  then...Wow







Then the moon peeked out and washed them away

It was an amazing display, the best I have seen in a long time.

Maybe Ill see you there next time!

Thursday, March 23, 2017

A Northern Lights Lesson

Last night I was at Bryant Park in TC
The forecast was for a moderate chance for a northern lights show
It was 34 degrees  but calm... I had to go

I got all set up  the lights were beginning to show
Camera ready, I was starting to get my eyes adjusted to the dark
Ready to take a couple pictures

Then some people pulled into the park... and proceeded to light up me and my camera on the tripod with their bright lights....
After I waved my flashlight at them asking them to turn off their lights, a man gets out walks to me and asks if Im seeing the aurora at all...

well... not any more...

I shot a couple pictures after the man left and his headlights went with him...  too late to get the shot I wanted

Please...

To all those who dont know... when you pull into a park at night and see a old bald guy out there with a camera on his tripod, he does not need you to shine your bright lights right at him as to help him find his way home.... maybe he is trying to take pictures of the northern lights and at the moment he is contemplating dimming your headlights with his hickory walking stick! And when he is thru he might hit the ones on your car too....