Tonight, the Northern Lights were visible at latitudes low enough, to be seen in the Puget Sound.

Armed with my trusty Bogen carbon fiber tripod, my 17mm F/2.8 lens and a heart full of hope, I headed out to part of the county with a Northern facing beach. A few others were there to try to take in the spectical.

Sadly fires burning in Canada to the north, provided enough haze and smoke to obscure any chance of seeing this great sight. But that doesn’t mean I might not catch it on the camera (stranger things have happened).

Tonight, wasn’t one of them, BUT I did goof around with long exposures, lighting and moving objects.

This is what I captured:

Last shot. Reduced the time and waited for some departing traffic to pass me. A car came over the road in the opposing direction, but did not have it’s high-beams on, so shot was no totally washed out.

This has given me some ideas for other night photography projects. One I’d like to try is a set of long-exposure time lapse pics of the helicopters. So far, the opportunity has not yet presented itself.