by Lyonel Perabo | Oct 16, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
For most of the XXth century, photographers who wished to snap a shot of the Aurora had to rely on silver-coated films and darkrooms to obtain any kind of results. Towards the end of the millennium, a new technological breakthrough made it much easier to obtain...
by Lyonel Perabo | Oct 3, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
In our previous installment of this series, we talked about how the Aurora was traditionally painted or drawn in the Renaissance and the Early Modern period. Today we will look at the way people represented the Aurora through Analog Photography. While analog...
by Lyonel Perabo | Sep 25, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
With the joint development of the Internet and digital photography, pictures of Northern Lights are easy to come by. This wasn’t the case in the previous centuries though, and artists of these times had only one way to capture the iridescent beauty of the Aurora...
by Lyonel Perabo | Aug 28, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
August nights in Arctic Norway don’t tend to be particularly dark. During the last days of the month, it can only be truly called night for a few hours around midnight. Still, in this darkness, a new light arises, a light that hasn’t been seen in many...
by Lyonel Perabo | Aug 14, 2015 | BIVROST Stories
We are, as earthlings, lucky to be able to witness the spellbinding beauty of the Auroras. While it is much easier for us to see this fascinating phenomena from our Blue planet, Northern Lights are by no means an exclusively earthly phenomena and can be seen from...