In 2014, I met another photographer during a photoshoot in northern Sweden, where I was living at the time. We both really wanted to see and shoot the northern lights. So we booked a four-day trip to Tromsø, in the far north of Norway. It was only 11 years ago, but back then photographing the aurora wasn't as simple as pointing your iPhone at the sky. You needed a tripod, long exposures, patience... and quite a bit of luck. And aurora forecasts weren't a thing back then eithe