Night light meadow

pyry

A shot from the darkest time of night at 60 degrees north. A clover meadow lit by midnight sun and noctilucent clouds.

richtersl

That's a sight we don't see here in Pennsylvania. Our darkest time of night won't see that much illumination even during a full moon. Very pretty. Those clouds look pretty strange -- almost 3 dimensional.

thapamd

Good shot! The dark tones really work well here. The bright light in the center is a little distracting, and I may have cloned it out. Also, although it may just be an optical illusion, the image looks tilted ever so slightly in a CW direction.

schmoo

Beautiful! Agreed, that's not something that a lot of us are used to seeing. It looks like a spring evening for us southerners!

pyry

richtersl wrote:

That's a sight we don't see here in Pennsylvania. Our darkest time of night won't see that much illumination even during a full moon. Very pretty. Those clouds look pretty strange -- almost 3 dimensional.

Thanks for the reply

NLC's are really pretty, I find I stay up late to look for them a lot

thapamd wrote:

Good shot! The dark tones really work well here. The bright light in the center is a little distracting, and I may have cloned it out. Also, although it may just be an optical illusion, the image looks tilted ever so slightly in a CW direction.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you like the picture

I did consider cloning the bright bit out, but I thought it kinda looked like a gateway or a pathway and left it in. The tilt I think comes from the foreground which is on a gradient.

schmoo wrote:

Beautiful! Agreed, that's not something that a lot of us are used to seeing. It looks like a spring evening for us southerners!

Thank you Schmoo

That's the thing about nights in the mid summer up here. Night doesn't really happen - there's a sunset, a long bit of twilight and then the sun lumbers it's way up again. For which we pay in the winter when the sun climbs barely above the horizon, goes "C-c-cold!" and sets away immediately...