Fireworks for James Madison’s birthday?
Loren Holmes photograph straight up of Aurora borealis over Eureka, Alaska, on March 13, 2013. AlaskaDispatch.com
I love fireworks. Kathryn and I have been known to drive a couple hundred miles to see a good show. Fireworks in honor of the guy who gave us the Constitution and the First Amendment (and much more), seems a great idea to me.
But no one did it . . .
Sometimes the Sun, Moon, stars and planets conspire.
Here’s one of the best, most inspiring five minutes you’ll spend this week. Look what the Sun sent us, filmed in time-lapse glory above Eureka, Alaska, on March 16, 2013, the anniversary of James Madison’s birthday; from AlaskaDispatch.com:
A timelapse of the Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights, over Eureka, Alaska on March 16, 2013. Taken with a Canon 5D Mark III and 24mm f/1.4 and 70-200 f/2.8 lenses. Compiled from 3800 images, with exposures between 2 seconds and 30 seconds.
AlaskaDispatch.com provided a slide show of Holmes’s better photos, too.
Tip of the old scrub brush to Dr. M. P. Bumsted.
More:
- Aurora Borealis in Alaska (smokinchoices.wordpress.com)
- the aurora has been seen all over the state (auroranotify.com)
- Aurora borealis: Northern lights dance in the night skies (photos.mercurynews.com)
- Video Of The Day: Aurora Borealis Iceland (gadling.com)
- Can you see an aurora borealis when there’s a full moon? (earthsky.org)
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That was beautiful. Thanks, Ed.
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