“I didn’t have time to move. I had to take the picture from where I stood”
Overall winner of Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year’s Aurorae category in 2015, Percy headed over to Abisko National Park in Lapland, Sweden, to take his prize-winning shot. Using a Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera with a 24mm f/1.4 lens at ISO 2,000 and using a four-second exposure, he recalls the moment he captured the Swedish Silk Skies: “After waiting many hours on top of the mountain for the aurora, I finally gave up and decided to call it a night. I packed up my gear and began to walk back. As I stumbled down the hill, I noticed the snow reflecting a green glow – you can see my footprints on the left. I quickly turned around and looked up to see this.”