As a photographer, it is a treat to watch and photograph the aurora, but eventually an artist needs to find additional subjects to add interest to the image. On this evening in Bartlett Cove, my daughter was a willing model but the shoot was complicated by numerous factors. For one, a bright full moon was out which made the sky too bright to clearly see the aurora. I mitigated this by placing the moon behind the totem pole. If you look closely, you can see the glow of white moonlight just above the horizon and behind the pole. Then I had my daughter pose very still for about six seconds as I carefully “painted” the pole and her with a flashlight to illuminate those details. Photographer: Sean Neilson