Borealis Dreams: swirls (series 3 of 9 including original)

abstraction of borealis photo taken in Iceland 2007,
I was impatient and desperate as I caught a glimpse of it from the car window on my way to one of my borealis hunting grounds….needless to say, photographing the borealis is not an easy task, so what I expected from inside a car at night with a closed window and on the move…well is just anyone’s guess……but the borealis is the most unpredictable subject I have ever had that may have been all I would see that trip. You don’t even know if all the travel , money , time and energy you have invested will result in a sighting at all. Needles to say as you can see from the raw image….it did not work. But all my images of the borealis are precious and rarely to I delete them. My sole reason for using Photoshop was to recycle these ‘reject’ images to create something to fill the gap until my next fix….and who knows when that could be…..
We a re beginning a new borealis cycle and perhaps in a few years time as it peeks again I will see it from the uk!!!!!
I have not altered only amplified all the colours in my borealis dreams series. Please see Borealis Dreams: swirls raw image for a comparrison

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Taken on: January 3, 2007

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