peace region

It has been almost two months since I have been back in Yellowknife, NT and the Mountain Standard Time Zone. Since moving back I have not thought much about the time, because up until last night at 2am MST and the BC Peace Region was the same time (they don’t change their clocks ever, it is rather nice). This has now changed, we here in the MST are an hour ahead of them and they are aligned with the rest of British Columbia once again.

The catch being I had all my computers and phone setup so they wouldn’t change during Daylight Saving. This caused me some confusion when waking this morning, as I believed my phone had in fact sprung ahead an hour. Well it didn’t, so as I entered the rest of the hour I instantly lost an hour. Like I said on Twitter, it was mildly depressing.

Now I have to find all the devices I had set like that and change them to MST.

Well I finally did it, after living in the prime Aurora viewing city all my life, I finally got out and took a photo of them… while living 1000km south of that in Fort St. John. This was proabably one of the best displays of the lights the Peace Region has ever seen, ironically that would be consider an average show in the North.

While I was dancing around with the lights last night on the side of the highway by myself many memories came flooding back. I remember one paricularly of myself coming out of the Gerry Murphy Area in the dead of winter in Yellowknife and seeing the green AND red light dancing around.

It being the first time I had ever tried the capture the dancing beast I probably didn’t do all that I should. I quickly found, thanks to a friend, that I needed to lower my ISO as I was shooting at 1000. I brought it down to 400 and even found that was to high while processing the photos later.

I’m definitely no or (the King of the Aurora) but I happy with what I got.

ISO400, 11mm, f/8, 30.0secs

I was in the BC Peace Region Time Zone

Aurora Funnel over the Peace Region