Dennis Anderson’s Northern Lights

I don’t think there’s any of us who fish and love the outdoors who hasn’t wished to have seen or been lucky enough to have seen a fine display of the northern lights. Having spend a lot of time in Alaska, I’ve seen some amazing displays, but the best I may have seen was while fishing the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana when a friend said, “I think those are the northern lights starting.”

I told him, “No way.” But then, 15 minutes later light and color rippled through the sky and there was no denying the truth—those were the freakin’ northern lights in a big way. Apparently, 2012 is one of the best years in memory for northern lights, although I haven’t seen them yet. Maybe in June, when I head to Alaska with my daughters. Until then, I’ll have to enjoy them in images shot by photographers, including Dennis Anderson, who used to live in Livingston, Montana, but pretty much moved to Alaska, just to photograph northern lights. Pretty cool. And a cool article here for you to link up with and follow. Thought all of you might enjoy.

Dennis Anderson’s auroral epiphany arrived when he was 14. It was the night of April 1, 1975, and as he looked north from his home in Livingston, Mont., the sky exploded.

“You had lots of rays and curtains and arcs and bands and lots of motion. It was almost a religious experience to be in the middle of that, to see the whole sky on fire, dancing,” says Anderson, now 51 and living in Homer, Alaska. READ MORE + MORE IMAGES