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Winter Lights by Michael Liu

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This photo was taken at Kilpisjarvi – Lapland, Finland.

My countless sleepless nights has been answered with this trip.
Months before this trip, I’ve been having the same reoccurring (and disturbing) dream of myself alone wondering into the deep mountains at the edge of the world in search of the Northern Lights.

With strange luck and sequence of events, we found ourselves directly under the Aurora Borealis. The lights got so close and so bright the surrounding mountains lit up. Words just cannot describe the beauty of this phenomenon…