{"id":4634,"date":"2015-06-24T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4634"},"modified":"2015-06-24T07:22:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T12:22:15","slug":"auroras-from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4634","title":{"rendered":"Auroras from the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"auroras__34823\"<\/a>I watch solar data pretty closely.\u00a0 Thanks to a couple of guys at NOAA, I’ve learned which numbers are the most important to us here in North Dakota.\u00a0 The way the numbers were peaking on Monday, I was going absolutely nuts.\u00a0 The sky was on fire, but unfortunately we were on the daylight side of the globe.\u00a0 As darkness approached, I made plans to go out to see them.<\/p>\n

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\"auroras__34821\"<\/a>I had planned some dramatic foreground objects, but things didn’t time out the way I’d planned.\u00a0 I found myself along the side of a rural highway with some friends, however, which was cool in itself.\u00a0 I started to swing the camera around to see what I could capture.<\/p>\n

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\"auroras__34820\"<\/a>Again, I’m of the opinion that any sky photo is made 10x better by having an interesting or unique foreground.\u00a0 That was driving me nuts as I didn’t really have one, but the Lord put on a lightshow that was so astonishing that I began to just look upward and not focus so much on the camera.<\/p>\n

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\"auroras_34825\"<\/a>I keep little LED flashlights in my camera bag, and I grabbed a blue one to illuminate the roadway with blue light so vibrant I actually had to tone it down for this photo.\u00a0 I played around a little bit until the clouds began to roll in, I began to get tired, and the lights began to wane.<\/p>\n

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There’s a really good chance of more Northern Lights tonight – keep your eye on the skies!\u00a0 I’m going to be on the road for a shoot all day and don’t expect to get back until after dark…but I may have the opportunity to transition from work to play just in time to catch more Northern Lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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