Chasing the Northern Lights in Lapland | LOCALS. | Travel + Leisure
Grab your down jacket as we take a trip 200km north of the Arctic Circle in Sweden to meet Chad Blakely, founder of Lights Over Lapland, a tour company that specializes in Northern Lights photography. 10 years ago, Chad quit his job in the US and moved to the small Swedish town of Abisko to photograph the Northern Lights. He now guides travelers out to the farthest reaches of Swedish Lapland. The snowy terrain is often accessible only by dogsled or snow mobile, and along the way travelers can enjoy a stay in the world’s first Ice Hotel and interact with the Sami people, the ethnic group of nomadic reindeer herders that call Lapland home. Chad will be our guide offering photography tips and arctic travel advice while exploring just what it is that draws people to the end of the earth to witness the Northern Lights.
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Massive Aurora 23rd March 2018 Abisko, Sweden
Finished my aurora tours yesterday for Lights Over Lapland and was just about to watch a movie and then this happened outside! An even more crazy aurora than last week. Had to run and grab the camera and filmed this!
Even though a geomagnetic storm has been forecast the Kp score is currently low but this looks like a geomagnetic storm to me. Totally amazing!
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Edit - apologies made a mistake on the opening title it is the 23rd not the 22nd!
Swedish Lapland stories: Ep. 15 — ABISKO AND THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
A cold and clear night, dishwasher and former wedding photographer Chad Blakley crossed a frozen lake in very north of Swedish Lapland – coincidentally, making that night, the start of Abisko as one of the best places on earth for Northern Lights.
Swedish Lapland – Your Arctic Destination
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3 Years of Amazing Auroras Captured on Video
Chad Blakley spent 2000 hours over the last three years photographing auroras in Abisko National Park in Sweden. Editor Thomas Malkowicz compiled time-lapses of thousands of still images to create this truly epic video for lightsoverlapland.com.
Northern light in Swedish Lapland - real time video!
This video is for you to share my passion and to give you an idea about our Aurora photo tours in Abisko, Swedish Lapland. I hope you enjoy it. If this inspires you and sparks an interest to photograph the dancing queen of the Lapland sky, we warmly welcome you to take part in my Aurora Photo Courses in Abisko National Park, my own back yard. All images are taken in Abisko, Kiruna and Swedish Lapland during the past years. You are very welcome to share the video among your friends.
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Almost all images are taken in locations we visit during our multiday Aurora Photo Courses in Abisko National Park and in Kiruna, Swedish Lapland.
For this video I have taken about one hundred thousand images using mainly Canon 1 DX and the Canon lenses 24:1.4 and 16-35:2.8. Most scenes are in real time video.
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Northern Lights over Mt. Nuolja, Abisko, Lapland
Short TimeLapse video of northern lights (Aurora Borealis) in Abisko, Lapland, Norrbotten.
CHASING THE AURORA (Part 1) | Abisko Northern Lights, Sweden
We're here in Abisko, Sweden and we have 3 nights to see the Northern Lights. Will we succeed, or will this all be a spectacular waste of money?
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Stockholm & Abisko, Sweden Trip
During the autumn vacation in Denmark, Brenda who is my Indonishian friend, and I decided to go to Arctic circle to see the aoura, and climbing the Abisko National Park, close to the nature. And we had a lot of fun during these five days.
CHASING THE AURORA (Part 2) | Abisko Northern Lights, Sweden
2nd night here in Abisko and we take a shot to see the Northern Lights by booking a tour. Is spending $200++ worth it?
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Lights over lapland in Abisko National Park Sweden
our trip to Abisko in search of the Magical Aurora..
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Spectacular Aurora (HD)
A powerful geomagnetic storm creates extreme auroras in the skies above Abisko National Park in Sweden. This video was shot in three hours by Lights Over Lapland photographer Chad Blakley, and shows 8 photographers participating in Lights Over Lapland's aurora borealis photo expedition 2012.
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Aurora's Flow Over Sweden's Lake Torneträsk | Time-Lapse Video
Chad Blakley (lightsoverlapland.com) captured footage of the aurora borealis on Oct 17th, 2013. The lake is the sixth largest body of water in Sweden and is located in Abisko National Park.
Watching the northern lights in Abisko
Time lapse over Aurora watching in Abisko.
The images was shoot between September and December 2014 in Abisko, Sweden.
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Swedish Lapland Vlog Part 1 [Northern Lights, Ice Hotel, Icebreaker Ship, Dogsled, Tree Hotel]
We spent our winter holiday in Swedish Lapland! Went dogsledding, stayed at Tree Hotel, saw aurora borealis, went to Ice Hotel, and more! My online film school::
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Northern light in Swedish Lapland. Real time video.
Welcome to join our aurora photo tours in Abisko and Swedish Lapland. Aurora tours that includes so much more like wildlife, astro photography, ICEHOTEL, dog sledding, Sami culture etc.
For more info: photoadventures.lapplandmedia.se/en
This video is for you to share my passion and to give you an idea about our guided Aurora photo tours in Swedish Lapland. If this inspires you and sparks an interest to photograph the dancing queen of the Lapland sky, we warmly welcome you to take part in my Aurora Photo Courses in Abisko National Park, my own back yard. We might be the only company in the world with a 100% success rate on Aurora photo tours. The fleeting nature of the northern lights means it is naturally difficult to guarantee you will see them, but to date we have been thrilled! This means that all previous guests participating on multi-day tours ever since we started six years ago have seen and captured the Aurora in beautiful environments. We are truly dedicated to ensuring our guest’s satisfaction and proud to say that we are the winner of the TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence Award 2014-2018. All images are taken in Abisko, Kiruna and Swedish Lapland during the past years.
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Welcome to join us next winter!
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Hiking Abisko - Swedish Lapland 2018
Images from a weeks hiking in Swedish Lapland, with start and finish in Abisko.
Abisko - Ballinvággi - Siellvággi - Alisvággi - Mårmapasset - Vistavaggi - Alesjaure - Abisko.
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Time lapse images of the Northern Lights (Aurora Bolealis) over Abisco Mountain, Swedish Lapland
Sweden Lapland Tree Hotel - Northern Lights & Dogsledding
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If you're interested in seeing the northern lights, visiting beautiful Lapland, or dog sledding in Sweden, then this is your guide to a trip of a lifetime.
This is your complete guide to the Arctic adventures in Swedish Lapland complete with dog sledding, Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), snowmobiling, & a trip to the iconic Tree Hotel (aka the treehouse hotel). Our adventure began as we flew through the main Swedish hub of Stockholm and up to Luleå, a city with a population of 80,000 that borders the Arctic Circle. As we stepped outside of Luleå airport, the crisp sub-zero temperatures made us gasp for air. Little did we know that the Arctic adventures ahead of us would be the thing that would truly take our breath away. We arrived at the Treehotel - which is very close to the Ice Hotel and just south of Abisko , a destination in itself, about an 80-minute drive from Luleå in the snow. After a gourmet dinner of arctic char and fresh blueberry dessert, it was time to check into our tree house. We hiked 800 meters up the wintery white path, following the little lanterns that illuminated the snowy hillside. We passed various tree houses of varying shapes and sizes until we arrived at our unique tree house, the UFO. The flying saucer nestled itself in the trees, 20 feet up above ground. Just as though we were in a Star Trek flick, the bottom of the UFO opened up and a staircase dropped down to the ground as if to say, “beam me up, Scotty.” We climbed the staircase and opened the doors to our flying Swedish saucer. From the moment we touched down in Swedish Lapland to our very last day, it snowed. While this may have been beautiful for photos, it’s horrible for viewing the Northern Lights. On our last day, there were rumors that we may get to see the dancing green fairy in the skies. We checked our Aurora app religiously and found out that we may be able to see the Northern Lights between the hours of 9 pm and 11 pm.
As we waited for the Aurora Borealis to flare, we stayed warm by doing push-ups and air squats, forcing our heart rates to soar. All of a sudden, Mother Nature opened her green eyes and pirouetted through the Arctic sky and our hearts seemed to stop. There they were – the Northern Lights – right before our very eyes. The world suddenly seemed to stop rotating, time seemed to slow, and we were there – present with our surroundings and connected to the universe. Scott and I immediately embraced, cognizant of the rarity of the moment and grateful for the opportunity to witness Mother Nature at her finest.
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