vidar, great pic...can't wait to see the whole thing!

well, i didn't mean to torture everyone quite this much. i thought it would be good to do something a little radical. but i am shooting most of mine this weekend, like i said, at least i eat my own cooking! when you suffer, i suffer with you!

i promise, we will ease into the new year with a very easy theme!

if only this annoying sun would go down, i could get to work!

gonna be cold tonight....brrr. i guess i should not complain about the cold where brian can hear me...

finished
 

Good evening,

Like others, my actual plans did not come to fruition, however I did just download an effort for the last challenge of the year. I was about ready to jump into the tank even though I had about an hour of footage. Weather has been howling winds, nothing seemed to be working out. But thursday evening I got out and had some cool things happen when filming that actually kind of tied into my bits of footage I took at the first of the month.

anyway, it isn't as planned.


meryem, you must have a deep rooted urge to punish people!! lol.

hardest video I think I have tried to ever put together.

I guess I should really thank you for that.

I even titled it uwol6_ dwg_ moonglow, Sure hope that does it this time.

Just a slow learner I reckon!!!

dear dale:

gaaaaaaaaah! repeat after me....

DWG_UC6_moonglow

getting closer, at least!


ok, i don't know what all the bellyaching is about. i just went out tonight and shot most of my entry. it's not going to be brilliant, but the shooting was fascinating! i've never gone hiking with my camera at night before. i probably never would have bothered, either, without UWOL.

whoever came up this fantastic idea? sheer genius!!

i always like to see through my lens in entirely new ways, and this did that, for sure....

having said that, yes indeedy! this is HARD.

the survivors of this round will definitely have learned a few lessons about their cameras....

Amen, Meryem!

I'm back home after almost 6 hours out in the night, the watch is ticking and passing 03:00 am here now. Got something the first hour before thick fog was coming, so the moon disappeard which i had planned to shoot tonight

Then I was stucked with the citylights which was almost not visible in the foggy night. I do need one more clear night to finish up this one, hopefully tomorrow night.

Time for some sleep...

...

Per,


We have battled the weather for the last three weeks. We are frozen up, snow and ice on the deck. Wife slipped on the ice and fell down the stairs of the deck today, no real damage fortunately. Finally in the first quarter and we have been clouded in, figures.

Hope you get you clear evening tonight. Looking forward to seeing your city lights.

Two new pics from last night
 

As stated before, last night was one of the darkest and foggiest this month, which already is the darkest month of the year at my place.

So, what can you do to take videos then? There are some lights and it's surprising when you combine fog and lights together as in these two samples:

Left: There is somebody out there - a good friend of mine, Anne-Kari and her two dogs, Várri and Rajio
Right: A meet in the dark - our King Olav V (died 1991) and his dog Troll was a real uwol'er, Rajo and Troll had a short meeting this night

wow wow wow !!! Great images Per ! Looking forward to what your film has in store!

Great Per Johann

I see her will becom allot of aha!! in this round.
It will be a great round I think.



VV

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those are pretty sweet looking shots, per. yes, the fog is your friend, in the right quantities, it's a great diffuser. earth's own natural scrim. great colors.

i can't wait to get mine in the editor today and see what funky interesting stuff i can pull out of it....

in a previous round, i said that thing about "there's no bad footage, only bad editors"--well, i'm going to be eating a bit of that cooking as well. i can't wait!

Today or Never
 

Like others I'm sure, it's down to the wire for me. The footage is captured, rough cut (looks like polished crap) music is selected and the voice over is written so if I can have an extension to the number of hours in a day I may make it on time.....lets say 36 hours = one day that should just about do it.

I was reading where people were talking about the cold and wind so I thought I'd throw up this frame grab.....not dressed for style, and look at the camera strap it's 90 degrees to the camera will give you some idea of the wind.

When this was shot it was -40 C and -40 F the cross over point.

Brian

Per,

Beautiful images!

You are very lucky to have these foggy nights - they can create a lot of different moods.

Can't wait to see your entry.

Deadline for uwol6 is just around the corner and of caurse the weather will be changing at the same time.
Heres the forecast for tonight and tomorrow and I've just uploaded my video.
This is Aurora weather folks.

Geir Inge

If that happens and you have some time,
try to get it on tape for the rest of us.

Hi Geir:

What makes your graph Aurora weather? I'd love to know!

And thanks so much! for the emailed picture of the 4 Vikings from your previous visit!

Cat

ugh. edit till your eyeballs bleed.

mine's done. i just compressed it. 63 mb. nooooooooooooooooooooo!

back to work, squeezing those pixels till they scream for mercy.

I bet you know someone at UWOL that will let those 3 mbs. slide....

heh. correct. but i'm in at 59.4 mb at 9:32 pm Colorado time...nice. hours to spare!

it always feels better when i play by the rules...

Hi Catherine.
I said so because it's cold,the right time of year and a clear sky :)
It most often occur under these conditions.

Here's some facts about Aurora (Aurora is a female name in Norway):
Auroras (or aurorae) [snglr.: aurora] are natural colored light displays, which are usually observed in the night sky, particularly in the polar zone. Some scientists therefore call them "polar auroras" (or "aurorae polaris").

In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. It often appears as a greenish glow (or sometimes a faint red), as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. The aurora borealis is also called the northern lights, as it is only visible in the North sky from the Northern Hemisphere. The aurora borealis most often occurs from September to October and from March to April.

Auroras are produced by the collision of charged particles, mostly electrons but also protons and heavier particles, from the magnetosphere, with atoms and molecules of the Earth's upper atmosphere (at altitudes above 80 km). The particles have energies from 1 - 100 keV. Most originate from the sun and arrive at the vicinity of earth in the relatively low energy solar wind. When the trapped magnetic field of the solar wind is favourably oriented (principally southwards) it reconnects with that of the earth and solar particles then enter the magnetosphere and are swept to the magnetotail. Further magnetic reconnection accelerates the particles towards earth.

The collisions in the atmosphere electronically excite atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere. The excitation energy can be lost by light emission or collisions. Most aurorae are green and red emission from atomic oxygen. Molecular nitrogen and nitrogen ions produce some low level red and very high blue/violet aurorae.

PS
I didn't see it last night though, but maybe tonight - you'll never no :)

Regards
Geir Inge

Hi Brian,

Just checked out your photo. Gee it really is a different world you live in - I don't know why I compalin about shooting conditions sometimes. Maybe I should just remind myself of what you have to put up with.

Good to see you got your entry uploaded. I'm sure the footage won't be as bad as you described.

Stay warm...

I'm born in the northern part of our country and in my childhood the Northern Light as we used to call it was very common, especially in wintertime.
There was not so much light sources in my neighbourhood those days, so the Northern Light was very visible in the sky at nighttime.

A small lake was frozen and we, the kids used this as a playground during wintertime, for skating, hockey etc. and I remember in those magical moments when the Nordic Light was lighting up the sky we often lay down on the ice and was staring in the sky for those amazing patterns above us.
A rumor said that once in the time the light had come down and lifted away a small kid who had diseapperad in the darkness... ...everytime I was laying and staring at the light, this was on my mind, I was almost everytime afraid of this, but the light was so facinating to look at, kind of hypnotic, that I was still laying there.

...oh that was magical times... ...back to work now ;-)

Hey Geir,
If my kids were still at school, & needed to do a science project i think i might be picking your brain! That was amazing information, & very interesting (what i understood) to know about a truly amazing phenomenon. I only wish one day i will see one!

Bryce

Lovely story Per.........now theres a 3 minute film if I've ever seen one ! :-)

Nooo Mat, don't steal my idea please.... ;-)))))))))

Hello Geir:

I have to disagree on what produces the Northern Lights....watch Aksarniit and you will get all the facts.

Brian

i thought the cause of the northern lights was one of those phenomena that had multiple theories, but no final scientific explanation...one of those magical things which have eluded rational science.

dang, they get after everything, don't they???