Sky Light

Photograph by Emma Blythman , National Geographic Your Shot

Viewed from a remote ecolodge, the aurora borealis unfurls over a snowy plain in Canada s Northwest Territories. Having always had a love of the stars, I moved to the lodge to see the aurora and to learn to live off the land, writes Your Shot member Emma Blythman . Each night, after learning how to hunt and collecting wood, I would camp out by candlelight at the igloo, set up my camera, and watch the aurora dance above my head for hours. Magical.

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