{"id":185683,"date":"2025-12-10T23:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/185683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:45:18","slug":"israeli-photographer-among-winners-of-2025-global-northern-lights-photo-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/185683\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli photographer among winners of 2025 global Northern Lights photo contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has published the eighth edition of its annual \u201cNorthern Lights Photographer of the Year\u201d, a competition showcasing a curated collection of the 25 most extraordinary aurora images taken over the past year. As in previous years, the collection is released in December, coinciding with the peak of the Northern Lights season, and celebrates the beauty of this breathtaking natural phenomenon around the world.<\/p>\n

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The Israeli photographer featured in the prestigious Northern Lights photo collection <\/p>\n

(Roi Levi \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s list features photos taken across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, in locations such as Iceland, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Sweden, the United States (Idaho and Alaska), the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The collection includes 25 photographers representing 15 different nationalities, among them Roi Levi from Israel, who captured the aurora over Mount Kirkjufell in Iceland.<\/p>\n

The Northern Lights<\/p>\n

(Video: Roi Levi)<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen the sky exploded and the green lady and the red lady danced a tango, I managed to catch them in a wild Northern Lights dance,\u201d he told ynet. \u201cIt happened during a special Northern Lights photography tour I led in March. Even before we landed, I got a report of a solar flare and knew we had between 12 and 72 hours before a major aurora reached Earth and that\u2019s exactly what happened. On the second night, I decided to change course with the group and head toward Kirkjufell, and it turned out to be a very successful night, with one of the most colorful auroras I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery year, with every group, I witness an aurora of at least G2 level, but this one was special and felt stronger. I stood there in awe of the intensity and color in the sky. I grabbed my Sony camera with a fast Sigma lens and decided to shoot everything I saw. Fortunately, I managed to capture the entire sky surrounding the mountain and nearby waterfalls. Anyone familiar with the location knows this is a unique panoramic image taken during a vivid aurora show caused by a strong geomagnetic storm. It\u2019s a competition with massive exposure on all the biggest platforms, and I\u2019m glad to see Israel represented.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lights & Ice \u2013 Aoraki \/ Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand <\/p>\n

(Tori Harp \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Frozen Silence Beneath the Lights \u2013 Riisitunturi National Park, Finland <\/p>\n

(Nikki Born \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Fiordland Aurora and Lupins \u2013 Cascade Creek, Fiordland, New Zealand <\/p>\n

(Douglas Thorne \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Guardians of the Aurora \u2013 Taranaki, New Zealand <\/p>\n

(Daniel Mickleson \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Gibson Steps Aurora \u2013 Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia <\/p>\n

(Jeff Cullen \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Essence of the Arctic Night \u2013 Haukland Beach, Lofoten Islands <\/p>\n

(Giulio Cobianchi \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Cathedral of Green Light Rising Over Sk\u00f3gafoss \u2013 Sk\u00f3gafoss, Iceland <\/p>\n

(Victor Lima \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Llangrannog Aurora \u2013 Llangrannog, Ceredigion Coast, Wales <\/p>\n

(Mathew Browne \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Aurora Bouquet Above Go\u00f0afoss \u2013 Go\u00f0afoss, Iceland <\/p>\n

(Martin Giraud \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Alone Beneath the Dancing Sky \u2013 Skagsanden Beach, Lofoten Islands <\/p>\n

(Nikola Vukoti\u0107 \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Celestial Fireworks on New Year’s \u2013 Otways Region, Victoria, Australia <\/p>\n

(Sara Aurorae \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Arctic Rain \u2013 Troms\u00f8, Norway <\/p>\n

(Vincent Beudez \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Aurora Comet Lemmon \u2013 Skaulo, Sweden <\/p>\n

(Petr Hor\u00e1lek \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Auroral Reflections – Idaho, USA <\/p>\n

(Travis D. Amick \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Auroral Cinnamon Roll \u2013 Fairbanks, Alaska <\/p>\n

(Marc Rassel \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Celestial Fireworks on New Year’s \u2013 Raufarh\u00f6fn, Iceland <\/p>\n

(Sadeq Hayati \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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One Autumn Night \u2013 Abisko, Sweden <\/p>\n

(Jes\u00fas Garrido \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Northern Lights Over North Greenland \u2013 Arctic Circle, Greenland <\/p>\n

(Ollie Taylor \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Neon Nightfall \u2013 Turisalu, Estonia <\/p>\n

(Andres Papp \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Dreams in Eystrahorn \u2013 Eystrahorn, Iceland <\/p>\n

(Pablo Ruiz \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Twisting Turn \u2013 Scoresbysund, Greenland <\/p>\n

(Virgil Reglioni \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Speechless \u2013 Hudson Bay, Canada <\/p>\n

(Ralf Rohner \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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Veni, Vidi, Vici \u2013 Lapland, Finland <\/p>\n

(Marina Prol \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

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The Northern Crown \u2013 Pihtipudas, Finland <\/p>\n

(Mari J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen \/ The 2025 Northern Lights photographer of the year)<\/p>\n

The competition website notes that \u201cIn 2025, the aurora continued to deliver some of the strongest displays of the current solar cycle. Although the solar maximum has already passed, geomagnetic activity remained especially high throughout the year, producing storms that lit up the skies far beyond the polar regions. This created rare opportunities to photograph both the aurora borealis and aurora australis in exceptional locations\u2014including from long-haul flights crossing high-latitude airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dan Zafra, editor of Capture the Atlas, curates the collection throughout the year. His goal, the site says, is \u201cto highlight not only the work of established aurora photographers, but also emerging talents and unique locations where aurora images are less common.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas has published the eighth edition of its annual \u201cNorthern Lights Photographer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-185683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}