I’ve missed a few opportunities to photograph the aurora borealis over the last few months for a variety of reasons so when the forecast for a significant display popped up, I decided to head out. The weather forecast was for cloudy skies but fortunately it didn’t hold up and the skies began to clear. The above scene was one had planned for an aurora shoot.

I’ve only shot Old Faithful during an aurora event once before and wasn’t happy with the results. I’ve tried other times but there are usually people shining flashlights on it at night. There were quite a few people waiting for the geyser to erupt while watching the northern lights but fortunately no one put a light on the geyser. The red color on the geyser is due to lights on at the Old Faithful Lodge, to my right.