There is always something surprising about aurora shapes. That's why aurora photography is so fascinating and rewarding sometimes. To catch these elusive forms, you need to be consistently in the field, camera at the ready, as the aurora can literally go from zero to a 100 in a matter of seconds! That cold night of November 2018 was no exception to the rule. The aurora started as a faint band overhead, a sign that a substorm is forming. I quickly pulled over on the side of the road and found a still river a few hundred yards away. I barely had time to set up my camera by the calm water that the aurora exploded in bright greens and pink. At some point, it described a very nice swirl in the sky, as if a genie was coming out of a bottle!