The luck of the Irish must have been with me. I finally got to see and photograph the Northern Lights last night.
I’m so grateful for this as I’ve been aching to see it. It’s far brighter in a photo where the shutter was open for 60 seconds than it was in real life. Most of the time it just looked like a hazy cloud on the horizon with a few brief little curtains. I wish I’d figured out the right settings on the camera sooner and caught those, but I am happy with what I have at the moment. There will be more opportunities later in life to catch more.
Erin Bartels 
How wonderful – where was the picture taken? I saw a photo on twitter taken in Sussex but I didn’t get to see them in Brighton.
This was taken north of Lansing (actually, just north of St. Johns) right after 127 turns from freeway to highway, not too far from the Maple River State Game Area.