Terje Sorgjerd spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius.
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I don't have a bucket list, in fact I find them depressing. People take things that sound exciting but that they have no real drive to do and put them on their "bucket list" in order to pressure themselves into doing them. Or maybe they just like the guilty feeling that comes when they realize they'll never do them. Really, would your life be that much better if you bungee jumped or sky dived? I've done the Nevis Arch, which is the world's largest canyon swing. I loved it. It was thrilling, and I'd do it again in a heart beat (and do it upside down this time) but I don't know that I could say it changed my whole life. And seeing whales breach in New Zealand with my sister is one of my treasured memories. But if I had a sister who lived in India and had taken an elephant ride through the jungle, or gone white water rafting, those would be my favorite memories. Because they were different, because they were beautiful. But a lot of that has to do with being with her while I was doing them.
But I want to see the Aurora Borealis before I die. Maybe then I go back there, after. If you go somewhere after you die, I think that is where I would like to go. A phenomenon I would like to become part of.
Have people look up at me while their hearts expand and they forget the freezing cold around them and cry because it is so strange and so beautiful.
It's a nonsensical thing to say.
But it's lovely nonsense.
