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Hi All,

And welcome to a Duploworld update that I am truly proud to present.

This weekend has been devoted to Photography, hiking and photography.
Why you might ask, well it has been an aurora borealis weekend and this post is devoted to showing you my humble captures of what I conider the greatest of natures wonders.

Friday:
It really started friday night on my balcony, with four photos centered around capturing not only aurora borealis, but also establish a link to our human world.
I think friday was a success and you may judge from these 4 photos if I am right:


Saturday:
Well Mr. H (a friend) and I started out early at 9 we took of on a 3 hour hike to a melting water lake in the mountains behind nuuk. a wonderful and long walk and it was amazing to stand by the lake 3 hours later and enjoy the view.
Now we speeded up on the way down and two hours later we were at the car again.
Home for a grab and to recharge batteries for the nights aurora borealis hunt.
The destination for the aurora borealis hunt was a small peat cottage outside nuuk.
and before arriving there the auroras started. Just after this initial capture:

The sky exploded over us. I have never seen auroras that powerful or huge.... for 2 minutes huge waves of aurora in green white and purple flared across the sky at enormous pace, I managed to turn the camera 90 degrees to the right and trigger the shutter and the below result will give you a vague idea of the size of the waves.
(It was shot with my widest lens a 14mm and it was only able to include a fraction of the waves)

We continued rapidly to the peat cottage and I set up for the shot I had in mind, but the auroras was unfortunately already back to normal, as you can see:

I was two minutes late for what would have been the capture of my life:( but what I captured with my eyes is something I will not ever forget.

Sunday:
I have spend sunday processing the photos from last night and the hike, they are all in the "Greenlandic Autumn Photos" gallery.
And getting ready for tonights Aurora hunt, this evening looks very promising as well:)

Now how is that for a weekend:)

Thanks for looking and do take care:)

Thomas