Wolf Howls at Auroral Lights

I'm pretty sure this is an illustration from a sci-fi story (that I have around here somewhere.) The long exposure needed to have the stars show up would result in no wolf and a blur from the motion of the aurora.

In a long exposure, the stars would leave trails.

I do not completely agree with Don's reasoning, having photographed aurora's myself. With a high sensitivity film, an exposure of 30-40 seconds captures both stars and aurora, with the 'curtain' effect in the aurora still present. No problem here.

However: with such an exposure, the wolf would get blurred, as I don't think a wolf would freeze in howling attitude for such a long time. The wolf just is too sharp, suggesting a very short exposure, which doesn't match the auroral image.

So yes: I do think this is two images combined.

I agree, it looks like an artist's rendering.

It's really beautiful... but I highly doubt it's just one photo. That amount of clarity would definitely require either Photoshopping or putting two pictures together.

Here's a picture of an aurora that was pasted behind wolves - http://www.tigerden.com/~orcabork/aurora.html

and here's a painting - http://www.pollux.free-online.co.uk/Pages/skywolf.html

I think this is a painting, and that I have it on a book cover.

New Poster - Hi, guys!
Agreed with all six postings, so far. Picture sure is well done, tho. Hum-m-m, photography spliced onto artist's rendition of concept? Must be something new; have to check into this one - maybe some money in it. - stork

Oh, and Alex - Thanks for the tips! Love the Museum.

I, also, am pretty sure this is a composite. You don't see the Aurora so clearly unless the sky is really dark-- which would make it pretty tough to get the picture of the wolf.

Go to webshots.com and you can see many combos of the wolf with various backgrounds. He can stand on either the left or the right side of the picture.

I've seen the Northern Lights thousands of times, in many different parts of Canada, and I've never seen them electric blue. Also, when I tried photographing them, they came out resembling a faint fog. I live in a relatively isolated area, and I've never seen a wolf, no matter how hard I've looked. I bet my life that pics a phony. A really nice one, but still a phony.

it looks a lot like poster to me. i think they took a picture of an aurora and used photoshop to add the wolf. 😏

This was done with "Bryce 3D" It's amazing some of the digital pictures you can do with that program. This is digital artwork.
So...it's not a fake. It's just software rendered artwork.
You can find similiar work at http://www.digitalblasphemy.com

Its a composite, The wolf and foreground/background are all part of a seperete picture that was cut and blacked out. I have the image of the wolf in a forest on my computer.