Northern Nights

There are two kinds of light in this frame. The green one overhead is the sun's own weather, solar wind pouring into the sky above Alaska. The gold one is just a lamp in a window, and everything a lamp means when you are standing alone in deep snow at night.
This is outside Fairbanks, in the quiet between the two. Snowshoes hung by the door, a roof carrying a whole winter of snow, spruce loaded white, drifts halfway up the walls, and a sky clear enough that the stars come through the aurora itself.
Most northern lights photographs are all sky, and sky alone is a spectacle you watch from a distance. I kept the cabin close on purpose. Without it this is a picture of the aurora. With it, it is a night you can step inside, kettle on, boots by the stove.
For anyone with the northern lights still on their list, or a soft spot for cabins and being warm while the world is wild outside. Printed and finished to gallery standard, made to glow on the wall of a bedroom or a den. A piece of the wildest sky on Earth, with the light left on for you.