

Aurora season 2025–2026 in numbers
I collect data and record statistics about every aurora watch I perform, even if it's from the balcony of my house. This season I decided not to try to go out every time the northern lights chances were rising. So more of my footage is taken from my home. Still, I left my house by car 20 times. However, in this presentation even auroras shot from my balcony count as aurora hunts. Ok, lets look at the numbers. This season I saw 38 auroras. 34 of them were photographed. My 34 a


The Northern Lights Don't Perform on Demand
Here is how strategist and leadership mentor Sonja van den Bosch describes the experience of seeing the Northern Lights on my Aurora Tour. (Captions by Ove Lillas) There’s no guarantee. No switch you can turn on. No strategy that forces them to appear. And that’s exactly what makes the experience so powerful. The experience of the Aurora Tour is elevated by the way I do it: far away from lights, sounds and people. Yesterday, we stood in the middle of nowhere close to Nykarleb


A Winter Walk on the Marsh
Have you ever walked across an open marsh? If you have, you know the feeling. And if you haven’t, it’s hard to explain properly—but I’ll try. A marsh (bog/peatland/mire) feels like a world of its own, loosely connected to our everyday reality, as if it exists slightly outside normal time. That is exactly why stepping onto it is so liberating. For a while, you leave the ordinary world behind and enter something quieter, slower, and strangely comforting. On a clear winter day t

