… You’re trying to make a self portrait in the busiest spot of the Isle of Skye.
Actually, no one was in that spot until I went to stand there, and then… People happened. :’D
Aurora timelapse
In February I visited Iceland for the second time with some friends. One of them actually mostly joined us for the opportunity to see the Northern Lights, aka Aurora Borealis. While I knew you can’t be sure to see them just by going somewhere north during wintertime, I was definitely hopeful. And our wishes were granted. The first night I noticed something in the sky that I couldn’t quite define. Was it a cloud? I took a picture with a long shutterspeed from the car (very artistic), and it revealed a green spot in the sky! I became the ‘aurora spotter’, pretty much pointing my camera to anything that slightly resembled this strange phenomenon. The second night, the spot became a curve stretching out from the left to the right. And the third night, we spent hours outside freezing our asses off. Because this is what we saw.
A place on the horizon
This year I finally got to visit a country that has been on my travel wish list for years: Iceland. And I must admit that it was everything I expected it to be, and more. It simply felt like home.
Iceland 2015 from els vanopstal on Vimeo.