Living in the dark has it's benefits. You never have to worry about getting burned, sunnies aren't compulsory and you get to see these little beauties out ya window on almost any given evening.
The Aurora Borealis or 'Northern Lights'
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Ooh ahh pretty ...February is a particularly good time to see the lights because it's the middle of winter - so deep inky black darkness is not hard to find around midnight. For those of us lucky/stupid enough to live in the middle of nowhere, light pollution is also at a minumum. Midnight road trips therefore became commonplace for a few hardy Holar residents willing to tolerate the freezing cold for the chance to see a spectacle that truly has to be seen to be believed. All of the pics you see here are courtesy of Birgir (and to tell you the truth don't really do the scene justice). My camera ceases operations when it feels that it's too cold out. Living in Iceland it has caused me considerable trouble to say the least.
Mark, Birgir and Eydis caught in the flash
Northern Lights devouring Sauðárkrókur
Death ray intensity
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