Portfolio — 36 photographs

Astro & Aurora

Long exposures under northern skies, most of them made on the lakes around Yellowknife between 2021 and 2022. Thirty seconds at a time, in temperatures that argue with batteries.

An Air Tindi Twin Otter parked on the snow beneath a green aurora, the hangar's red sign glowing behind it — 15mm · f/11 · 6s · ISO 400

Broad curtains of green and purple aurora filling the sky over a dark treeline — 35mm · f/1.8 · 8s · ISO 800

Green and violet aurora rippling across the whole sky above a low ridge of bare trees — 35mm · f/1.8 · 8s · ISO 800

A vertical ribbon of green aurora falling toward a black spruce treeline under a star-filled sky — 35mm · f/1.8 · 5s · ISO 800

Green and violet aurora sweeping across the sky above a low ridge of silhouetted spruce — 35mm · f/1.8 · 8s · ISO 800

Aurora arcing over a lit building on a snow-covered flat, snowmobile tracks crossing the foreground — 15mm · f/2.8 · 4s · ISO 800

Green aurora arcing over a wide northern waterfall, the water smoothed by a long exposure with spruce forest on the far bank — 30s · ISO 1000

Aurora streaming above spruce at a lake edge in autumn, tall grass lit green in the foreground — 0mm · f/0 · 13s

Pink and green aurora mirrored in a still lake beside an old wooden dock — 15mm · f/2.8 · 30s · ISO 800

A figure seen from behind sitting on a dock as a wide green aurora fills the sky and mirrors in the lake — 15mm · f/2.8 · 13s · ISO 800

A figure standing at a dock railing looking out at a swirl of green aurora above a calm lake — 15mm · f/2.8 · 13s · ISO 800

A figure sitting at the end of a dock watching green aurora curl overhead and reflect in the water — 15mm · f/2.8 · 13s · ISO 800

A figure with a headlamp crouched on a dock beneath pink and green aurora reflected across still water — 15mm · f/2.8 · 30s · ISO 800

Green and violet aurora over the docks at Cassidy Point, the whole display reflected in still water — 20mm · f/2.8 · 30s · ISO 400

Aurora sweeping over Yellowknife at night, the lit downtown and houses below a snow-covered rock outcrop — 15mm · f/2.8 · 1.3s · ISO 320

An old wooden boat frozen into a snow-covered lake beneath faint green and violet aurora — 15mm · f/2.8 · 25s · ISO 100

A derelict fishing boat locked in lake ice, one cabin window lit, green aurora overhead — 15mm · f/2.8 · 8s · ISO 400

Green aurora above an empty highway at night, the double yellow centre line running away toward a spruce horizon — 15s · ISO 400

Aurora curling above a red-trimmed cabin on the ice, snowmobiles parked at the door — 31mm · f/2.8 · 4s · ISO 800

Two lit houseboats on the frozen bay beneath a broad sweep of green aurora — 35mm · f/2.8 · 20s · ISO 400

A faint green aurora above Yellowknife Bay, lit houseboats sitting small on the frozen lake below — 26mm · f/2.8 · 8s · ISO 400

A red houseboat glowing from within on the ice, green aurora twisting in the sky behind it — 28mm · f/2.8 · 1/1s · ISO 400

Green and violet aurora with the Milky Way above a calm lake, the colour running down the water toward the shore — 30s · ISO 800

Pink and green aurora above a small cemetery, white picket fences and grave markers in the tall grass — 17mm · f/2.8 · 8s · ISO 1000

A violet aurora over a pine-ringed cemetery, white fenced plots scattered through dry grass — 15mm · f/2.8 · 6s · ISO 2500

Teal and magenta aurora filling the sky above a white-fenced cemetery plot with hills behind — 15mm · f/2.8 · 8s · ISO 2000

Red and green aurora over a gravel road winding toward distant mountains at the old town site — 15mm · f/2.8 · 8s · ISO 2000

The Milky Way rising above the sea arches of the Oregon coast, surf washing through the channel below — 35mm · f/22 · 1/2s · ISO 100

Green aurora above a scatter of lit cabins on the frozen lake, stars showing through the display — 35mm · f/2.8 · 20s · ISO 400

Aurora curving over Prelude Lake in late summer, the green and violet band mirrored in the still water below — 15mm · f/2.8 · 2s · ISO 1600

Sailboats in winter storage under snow, masts rising into a sky streaked with green aurora — 15mm · f/2.8 · 2.5s · ISO 1000

A Twin Otter on skis parked on the apron beneath a green aurora, its nose lit warm against the dark — 15mm · f/2.8 · 6s · ISO 800

A Twin Otter parked on the snow at night, green aurora sweeping the sky above the hangar lights — 15mm · f/7.1 · 8s · ISO 640

A yellow two-storey houseboat sitting on the ice with green aurora arcing overhead — 22mm · f/2.8 · 20s · ISO 800

Green aurora over Yellowknife seen from a rock outcrop, the lit downtown spread out below — 15mm · f/2.8 · 1/2s · ISO 250

A lit timber house on the bank of the Yellowknife River with a broad green aurora curling above the spruce — 20mm · f/2.8 · 30s · ISO 1000