“I'm generally out and about every full moon, shooting all night up and down the coast, looking for new angles. But I had no idea this was happening. No idea at all.”
South Australian photographer, Hayden Richards recounts stumbling on the Aurora Australis after waking up in the middle of the night at home in Elliston and walking outside to take a leak.
“We’re renting in town at the moment, and our daughter Kirra had friends down over the weekend from Roxby Downs, so we gave them our bedroom and me and Fiona were sleeping the night out in the caravan.
“Well, I got up for a piss at four in the morning and walked outside and just went... whoa. What the f... is this? The sky was on fire. It was popping off red and green and purple and just moving and flaring. I was just tripping out. There’s never rave parties down on the oval at Ellison, but that’s what I thought was going on. It was so vivid. So, I ran inside and woke Fiona up and said, ‘Am I seeing things here?’ We’re both standing out the back of the caravan, looking up, just speechless, tripping.
