Rebecca Douglas has been to Iceland 29 times. And she’s already booked her 30th trip. The goal of every trip is the same: photographing the aurora borealis, or Northern Lights. Douglas has been photographing this spectacular phenomenon since 2010. It’s colors — which can paint the sky a dazzling array of green, purple, yellow and blue — are the result of sun particles that react with gases in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. With the current solar cycle reaching the peak of its 11-year period, the lights are expected to be even more prominent during the next four years. Douglas, a professional photographer based in Kent in the United Kingdom, also travels yearly to Finland, Norway and Iceland to shoot the night sky. But she said she’s also been able to photograph Northern Lights from the English countryside in the past year.
The rise of ‘noctourism’
Douglas has unknowingly been an early adopter of
‘Noctourism’ is expected to be a big travel trend in 2025
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