Tomorrow is Earth Day 2012, which is supposed to be the largest civil observances in the world, as approximately one billion people across the planet celebrate it.
There are so many things I could say about honoring the Earth, but this is the nature video that currently is most inspiring me:
The video is by Norwegian photographer Ole C. Salomonsen, with music by Norwegian composer Kai-Anders Ryan. It captures on film the aurora borealis--a topic that has always fascinated me and that is one of those things I want to be able to experience for myself someday. Salomonsen used stop motion video to film the Northern Lights in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland from fall 2011 - spring 2012. He would film with two or three cameras at a time, and shot about 150,000 frames, although only 6,000 frames made it into this video.
It is such a stunning testimony to the beauty of the natural world, albeit a very different world from the green and temperate climates of North Carolina. I hope you will enjoy it and also be moved to take some small step yourself to help keep our planet clean and healthy.
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