AURORA BOREALIS
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no less awe-inspiring. His exploration was rewarded by impossibly wide skies full of vivid colours, shooting rays, a magical glow, and a hypnotic dancing of light which, in his words, “almost appeared to be breathing”. Yet, through it all, he recalls that he was most moved by this seemingly frenetic activity in the sky juxtaposed against the complete silence of the landscape in which he found himself. His discipline and commitment to the project at hand took over, and the work began of doing justice to the majestic display he was fortunate enough to witness. The aurora is a notoriously difficult subject matter for photographers or artists to capture because of its sheer magnitude and the subtle variations of colour, but Richard’s personal artistic practice demands that he challenge
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