Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis/Intimate Abstractions
An abstract photograph of a hydrangea.

Aurora Borealis is one of those images that invokes childhood memories in me. There are only a handful of times that I have seen the aurora borealis, or northern lights, and each time I have fun memories of those experiences.

The first time I saw the northern lights I was about nine years old in Minnesota, visiting my grandma with my family. One night, it had to have been about two or three o’clock in the morning, my sisters woke me up to show me the beautiful blue-green lights dancing across the night sky. My family stood out on the dewy lawn gazing into the fiery night sky.

The next time we saw them in Minnesota we were driving back to our cabin when the sky came alive. Now, this might be more common for people from the northern states, but at the time we lived in California and were just in Minnesota for the summer, so we pulled our car over and stood on the side of the road watching these beautiful colored lights dancing everywhere. When I look at this image I re-imagine all of those experiences and hope that I will be able to share something like this with my kids one summer.