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Colored Rays

The original northern lights image (www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/23630134131) is considerably enhanced to reduce noise and improve color balance in this revision. The original negative was scanned at 7200 dpi without modification.

Other than green aurora other colors are rare at high latitudes. So when they did occurred, I took lots of exposures. In the age of film, the spectrum of color was not always captured accurately. In this version which occurred at the end of twilight, I managed to record the aurora lit by the last rays of the sun. That purple-blue is this resulting phenomena. The white-ish-yellow-orange is the result of the mixture of green-red-purple.

Taken with a Nikon FM2 with 35mm lens taken in early 2001 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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Taken on: April 20, 2021

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