I know we are encouraged to enter images taken in the month of the challenge. Unfortunately the challenge timing sucks (hehe) as I took this picture last month on an adventure trip to Iceland!! I'm itching to share this and the challenge topic this month just gave me an excuse to post it :P :P

As you can tell, I didn't exactly get the "best" shot here. I had no tripod as I couldn't take one with me, I had to rest the camera on a bonnet (or hood) of a "Super Jeep", and the wind chill was making me shiver so!!! Its a 10 Second exposure at 1600ISO (hence the horrible noise :( ) taken on a Canon 20d with a 17-85mm IS lens. We were very lucky to see Northern Lights of this magnitude, the picture just does not do it justice! The sky was effectively bright green from horizon to horizon! Even our local guides who see this sort of thing regulary was impressed :D

Wow! Northern lights aren't that easy to capture, and the photograph seldom does them justice. I think you have succeeded.

Super Jeep? Do you mean Hum-V?

The shape of the vehicle in the dark with all the antenna's made me think this was a submarine.

Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy!

A Super Jeep - one of the 2 Jeeps on our expedition. Basically the Icelanders take a normal 4x4, and then modify it!

The antenna is on on a hut in the background ;)

Looks like a Ford Van conversion to 4X4 (four wheel drive) by welding on a full sized Bronco frame underneath! I used to do conversions like this just outside of Detroit Michigan back in the mid-1980's.

Love that truck. Is it a Ford Powerstroke Diesel?

Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy!

very cool!! something I would love to see someday! :]

"Love that truck. Is it a Ford Powerstroke Diesel? " I have no idea. It's a Ford though. The other one was a GMC Suburban...going anywhere but Suburbia ;)

You caught the Lights well...and it is a sight to behold...the Northern and Southern Aurora :]

Super erie glows :)

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

Oh my!!! This is just awesome!! Do u realise how lucky u r to have seen this??? Geez!! I'm green with envy! ;) And I think ur shot is pretty cool considering the situation!! Thx so much for sharing this! :)

That's cool looking. Cool shot w/impressive improvised technique. I'd like to see this myself some day. -Peace :-)

Gotta agree this is a totally cool shot!!! Difficult shooting circumstances too, but like jeff said, you improvised!!! way to go!! i bet you were freezing!!! would have loved to have seen this!!!!!!

Thanks for the kind words gang. And yes, we were very very lucky to have the right weather, be in the right place (ie middle of nowhere in the highlands) and have the most awesome display that night. Still buzzing from it now almost a month on!