Messy nights and pointed drives

The perfect nights are leaving town with all but assured stable, clear skies and very favourable aurora conditions that present a ‘when’, and not ‘if’ question. But those nights are not every night.

Sometimes our drives are long and meandering, sometimes they are very pointed, and sometimes our nights involve shooting from less than ideal locations for very short periods while we stay more on the run to keep up with changing weather. These sorts of nights are our reality too. They don’t make the perfect blog posts, they are not what you see promoted, but they’re real, and there is a real beauty in them too.

When we can genuinely set aside what any of social media has impressioned us with, these quieter, messy nights are there to be loved and appreciated. Before smart phones and social media, these nights meant the world to us and we’d have given everything just for them too.