If you've never seen the Northern Lights in the lower mainland don't worry you didn't technically miss much this past May. Coming from Prince George I can say that I have seen the Northern Lights with my own eyes and they do exists though even in Prince George they were a relatively rare occurrence and the lights I saw felt more like a whisper than the images you see from people farther north. This year there was a lot of news hype about a spectacular event that was going to be visible as far south as Arizona and expectations were high that it would be spectacular. When the night arrived I took my bike to the closest dark area near our house which is the local elementary school.
There were already several people wandering around and at first I thought we were all in for a big disappointment. There was the slightest hint of something happening but it was not very clear. That was until I took out my camera and took a picture. Ordinarily when you take pictures on older cameras they don't pick everything up. That is not the case now as they are much more sensitive to dark light photography. I quickly sent the picture to the family and they asked where I was. As they were walking over I think they felt they had missed it but I showed them the camera trick. It was a great Instagram moment if not a great in person moment but that seems to be the case with most things now a days.
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