{"id":1119,"date":"2020-10-07T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toonsarah-travels.blog\/staging\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2021-01-14T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:36:46","slug":"on-not-seeing-and-seeing-the-northern-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toonsarah-travels.blog\/staging\/on-not-seeing-and-seeing-the-northern-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"On not seeing, and seeing, the Northern Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is there a traveller or photographer anywhere who doesn\u2019t dream of one day seeing the Aurora? It may be a scientific phenomenon, but the artistry of those beautiful glowing colours that seem to appear almost mysteriously in the sky can\u2019t fail to induce awe in anyone who sees them. So when we heard that 2012 was going to be a great year for sightings we headed to Iceland on the trail of the Northern Lights.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn’t see them \u2013 but we saw so many wonderful sights that the journey was more than worthwhile. My abiding memory from that trip was the wonderful light in which the spectacular Icelandic landscapes were bathed for much of the time at least. It was February, so some bad weather was probably inevitable, but we were lucky to have sunshine on two of our three days. And with that sun so low in the sky throughout the day, the light was always warm and never harsh. Add to that the sharp silhouettes of icy mountains; rainbows dancing in the spray in a waterfall; waves crashing against a black lava beach; perfect reflections in the stillest of pools… Truly, I concluded, this is a photographer\u2019s paradise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My photographer\u2019s paradise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I will no doubt write more about both that visit to Iceland, and a subsequent one in 2018, in later posts, but for now here are a few images to show just what I mean in describing it thus:<\/p>\n\n\n\n