Hiroshi Osaka Auroras typically display a dazzling array of colors; while one might naturally be inclined to highlight that chromatic beauty, there is something refreshing about the choice to render this image in monochrome. The lack of color brings the profound shapes into sharper relief; traced against the starry night sky, the aurora appears to possess a will of its own, creating a truly mystical atmosphere.
Within Earth’s magnetic envelope, solar wind is captured and directed poleward, where charged particles ignite the sky in colourful displays. This black and white photograph reveals paterns, shapes, textures and flow of the hidden field that guards the planetary surface and life, over the Arctic cold waters and beautiful mountains. It proves that even devoided of its colours, the auroras are sill one of the most mesmerising natural phenomena of our Solar System.
