Well I had a lifelong dream come true last night. I have ALWAYS wanted to see the northern lights or aurora borealis. Early this morning I was very well rewarded for standing out in the cold (36F).
At first I just took my camera. Which was really dumb, a camera without a tripod, taking shots of northern lights, is silly. But I tried to prop it up on the fence anyway. Below is the result.
Then I SPRINTED back to the house, grabbed the tripod and raced in the car to Golden Gardens and took this really cool shot. I was hard to see them, but the camera captured it very well.
Then we drove back to Sunset park and I got a better picture, even though the peak had passed.
It is really a truely awe inspiring sight to see this phenomena live and in person. (Even if my hands were so cold that I could barely push the shutter button on the camera).