HØST PÅ SENJA - The Norwegian Arctic Autumn (4K)

There is something inexplicably magical about the Fall. Is it the mesmerizing colors, the intriguing smells, or simply the start of the aurora season? As the bright summer nights come to an end within the arctic circle, the nights get longer by the day. The change is quite spectacular! Within a couple weeks at the end of August/start of September, you go from being able to walk around without a headlamp to almost complete darkness! And with it comes the aurorae! Of course they happen year round but the brightness of arctic summer nights prevents us from seeing them. The very first green bands of the season are always a relief among the locals, as if we were welcoming an old friend!
Høst På Senja translates to ‘Fall on Senja’ in Norwegian. This season has been very strange this year as it’s rained a lot more than usual. We have seen an alternation of both cold periods with snow and frost, and very mild ones with up to 14 degrees Celsius at night at the start of November. We have had a lot of wind as well, which made all the leaves fall quickly. I barely had a week’s window to really get the beautiful golden and orange colors of Birch trees in the mountains here on Senja. However the freshly fallen snow arrived at the right time too, enabling me to get some outstanding scenes in the fjords. Senja is one of the most strikingly beautiful islands I have ever visited. No matter what the weather, the time of year and day/night you visit, there is always a peculiar set of colors, lighting and mood that you can’t get elsewhere. The small fishing villages in the fjords, the jagged-edged mountains rising from the sea, the turquoise-water beached and inlets, the completely still bodies of water giving off a perfect mirror, the wildlife, the sunrises and sunsets on the southern part of the island… Everything is absolutely out of this world! Autumn is in my opinion one of the best seasons to visit Senja, as this video attempts to suggest. There really is a microclimate which helps clear up the sky most nights, so that you can enjoy the aurora.
Coming to settle down on the island, I was a bit worried that I wouldn’t be able to really shoot deep-sky astro timelapse and milky way… Ohhh how wrong I was! There are nights where the aurora is faint and that’s precisely when you should dust off your tracker! A very cool close-up shot of the Cygnus and its nebulae in the dim aurora is the proof! But while you’re at it, you can also shoot both our home galaxy and the northern lights in the same frame on such nights. As a side note it is my favorite scene in the movie (hence the cover): that night was perfect with crystal clear skies, a faint and colorful aurora, the milky way shining bright, and the mirror of the water… A rare night I won’t soon forget. The aurora is very common on Senja because the island lies right in the middle of the auroral oval, where the aurora spawns. We get aurora every night if it’s clear. However on October 11th, a G2-strong geomagnetic storm hit the Earth and I witnessed some of my most long-lasting aurorae ever! I went to Storvatnet lake to get the reflection of the water as well! Most of the scenes were shot on or in between my tours of the island with our guests at the observatory and the time is getting scarce now, but I succeeded in compiling the best scenes I have shot since my arrival in August. Since I moved from France, I was unable to bring all my stuff at once including my my slider, so some of the sequences are simple panned in post-process, and some others with the Vixen Polarie. All was shot with the Sony a7rII, Sony a7s and the Canon 6D Baader modified and a variety of bright lenses ranging from 14mm to 300mm. I used the Lonely Speck Pure Night and Matt Aust Light pollution filters to reduce light pollution and increase details on the deep-sky scenes and also the Vixen Polarie to track the stars and get cleaner shots. All post production was made in Lr with the special timelapse plus plugin, Sequence for mac, TLDF, and final production was made in FCPX. I hope you like the movie as much as I liked shooting and processing it and I thank everyone of you for your support. All content is of course copyrighted AMP&F (except sountrack licensed through The Musicbed: Steven Gutheinz with ‘In the Balance’), and no footage can be used in any way without the author’s permission. Please contact me for media and purchase inquiry. Please share and comment if you liked the video and follow me for more videos like this one! More at adphotography-online.com.

[@richardgrudzien2798]

As I click the mouse button and wait for your next time lapse video to commence, I know that it will be another spell-binder....and that is exactly what this is - just so stunningly beautiful, Adrien. Congratulations on yet another masterful example of filming. You should be a cinematographer, full time. Thanks for another uplifting visual and spiritual experience, friend.

[@AlynWallace]

Phenomenal again pal. That plane going in front of the full moon is insane! Love that scene with the boat too. I'm a coming...

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thanks again mate!! Yes I love it too haha, quite lucky on that one :) Can't wait for a second astromance reunion!

[@nord-zauber9081]

Ein wunderschönes Video, einfach fantastisch, bravo Adrien

[@peperosello9010]

For a moment I touched your poetry. Excellent.

[@jeweltilak767]

It just slows down everything around you as if you're meditating. Thank you Adrien. You're as awesome as this amazing video

[@NightLightsFilms]

Yes that's the goal!! Thanks!!

[@technobabble_]

I've watched this a few times now and shown it to a few people. I'm pretty confident in saying that it's the most beautiful 6 minutes I've ever seen.

[@NightLightsFilms]

Techno Babble oh wow really!? 😍🙏🤪 Thank you SO much!! Really appreciate the feedback :)

[@JPires-he9cw]

Amazing Video!! Very detailed and helpful. Thanks!!!

[@ursbeerli9900]

i am still dreaming, fine tuned time laps, i like your videos greetings from Switzerland Urs

[@richardgoold3306]

G'Day Adrien. Fantastic as normal mate, You'r in Autumn with shorter and colder days and for us it's spring with the days getting longer and hotter.

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thanks a lot mate!! Yes the days are getting shorter here but the night is longer so more auroras!

[@GuillaumeDoyen]

Magnificient movie Adrien! Always a pleasure to see your high quality work. My favorite view of aurora is at 4:11. Keep on photographing and filming, you are our aurora and space phenomena ambassador!

[@NightLightsFilms]

Haha thanks a lot Guillaume! So are you :)

[@aharshephotography]

epic Time lapse man... Love when you got the plane passing through the moon. That was so cool. And of course the variety of subjects. Great work.

[@NightLightsFilms]

Akshay Harshe thank you so much!! Yes and it all happened as a coincidence :)

[@firdaus8901]

What a perfect senja

[@evastrombo3476]

Meraviglioso ... merci beaucoup ...

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thanks Eva!!

[@marprol_]

I have no words... once again. Well done mon ami!! ( 5:13 Corona and satellite sequence

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you SO much Marina!! haha I guess it doesn't get better than that ;) Hope you are well!!

[@SuperStones64]

absolutely fantastic work Adrien, wonderful

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you so much Andy!! :)

[@brunoaeschbacher8595]

Wow lucky you! What a fantastic work!!! 👍👌

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thanks BrunO!

[@NicklasHolmqvist]

Riktigt vackert! Snyggt fångat 🙂

[@endless4k864]

Wonderful Nature!! BRAVO!!

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thanks!

[@h-engelien1232]

Fantastic work Adrien. Love it! :)

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you so much :)

[@maximegolliet9958]

SUPER les cadre monsieur 👌

[@NightLightsFilms]

Merci beaucoup Maxime :)

[@mi.j4662]

Волшебно! Спасибо огромное! :)

[@jspjsp4338]

C'est juste incroyable comme toutes tes autres vidéo

[@NightLightsFilms]

Merci beaucoup!! :)

[@TerryMcGearyScotland]

Remarkable filming as expected Adrien. Well done! We are just back from our Norway cruise yesterday and as you predicted it wasn't easy getting anything from a ship. Conditions weren't great for the aurora in any case with a bit of cloud and some light pollution. We spotted a little funnel-shaped fairly narrow spout but I for one could not detect colour (but although not officially colour-blind I think my cones are not up to scratch at all in dull light). Twice the passngers received tannoy notification (once when in bed) and dutifully got garbed up for the conditions and stood in the fore-deck darkness to see...well hardly a trace. A great trip nonetheless with highlights being a panoramic view over Tromsø from the top cablecar station, an experience of the howling gales of the North Cape and a rail trip from Åndalsnes to Bjorli past the Troll wall etc.Great film in the visitor/climbing centre there shown on a facetted screen for simulated 3D if you ever go. bergen was (of course!) raining but I got lots of superb Kode art gallery footage I hope to cobble together for KZbin. Sorry to ramble but I'm still on a high from the trip and was delighted to see this gem appearing! Great stuff always. :-) Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@sefabockun141]

So cool and impressive 👍👍

[@andreytyushin9920]

This is too beautiful to be true) Great job, Adrien, that was really good. Thank you)

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you so much Andrey!! :)

[@mariacyou9265]

Breathtaking 👏👏👏🙏

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you so much!! :)

[@nataliashershukova127]

Thank you for sharing the beauty.

[@NightLightsFilms]

You're welcome!!

[@maximeducloy864]

Bravo mon ami pour ce nouveau timelapse merveilleux. C'est parfait comme toujours

[@NightLightsFilms]

Merci beaucoup Maxime, j'apprécie beaucoup!! :)

[@maximeducloy864]

@@NightLightsFilms c'est Maxime Lassalle je précise .

[@NightLightsFilms]

@@maximeducloy864 Haaa ok LOL j'aurais pas deviné ;)

[@hanspeterbirkhansen5350]

marvellous!

[@scotty4418]

beautiful piece of work and a pleasure to watch

[@NightLightsFilms]

I'm happy to hear that thanks!! :)

[@andrewlewis5065]

Help! Someone help me pick my jaw up off the floor. That is incredible

[@NightLightsFilms]

Hahaha was it that jaw-dropping? ;) Thanks man!

[@andrewlewis5065]

Adrien Mauduit mate you nail it every time . Hats off

[@brambijdevaate7978]

So good!!

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you so much man!!

[@RuteandoEnLibertad]

Hello Adrien: Spectacular video! Very beautiful landscapes. Great job. Show with this wonderful time lapse, that you are a very high level photographer. I hope to have some day, the opportunity to meet you in person. For me it would be a real honor to be with one of the best night photographers in the world. A million thanks for giving us such a wonderful movie. Texto en español: Hola Adrien: ¡Espectacular video! Unos paisajes muy hermosos. Gran trabajo. Demuestras con este maravilloso time lapse, que eres un fotógrafo de muy alto nivel. Espero tener algun dia, la oportunidad de conocerte en persona. Para mí seria un auténtico honor el poder estar junto a uno de los mejores fotógrafos nocturno que existe en el mundo. Un millón de gracias por regalarnos una película tan maravillosa.

[@NightLightsFilms]

Hah thanks a lot!! It means a lot to me :) It would be my pleasure also to meet you in person! So if ever you wanna come to Senja, donut hesitate to come around! :)

[@rrrrremi]

Une merveille...

[@NightLightsFilms]

Merci Rémi!!

[@perfectlylonely]

Inspiring

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thank you so much!!

[@swingfly008]

insane

[@NightLightsFilms]

Thanks a lot my friend!!

[@wolfenkill]

Hvilket kamera og linser? Nydelige bilder

[@NightLightsFilms]

Takk Thomas! Alt er skrevet inni description :=)

[@NightLightsFilms]

Tusen takk Thomas!! :) Alt e skrevet inni teksten unna videoen :)

[@audubertclement8195]

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